because no one got around to doing it. exposing the lstream api into lisp was one of the things on my "big etl list" that didn't happen. i didn't think of following the common-lisp api but i bet it's not that different from lstreams. (and do you really want to deify mr. "hand of god"?) ben On 11/13/06, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net > wrote: > > > Can someone explain to this no-formal-education-in-the-language Lisp > user > why we don't have (with-open-file ...) and the rest of the Common Lisp > stream API in XEmacs Lisp? (insert-file-contents ...) with offsets > doesn't > really cut it for things like Perlish line processing. > > -- > Santa Maradona, priez pour moi! > > _______________________________________________ > XEmacs-Beta mailing list > XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org > http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta > >