GNU bug report logs - #12216
peek-char incorrectly *CONSUMES* eof

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Package: guile;

Reported by: dwheeler <at> dwheeler.com

Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #60 received at 12216 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "David A. Wheeler" <dwheeler <at> dwheeler.com>
To: "mhw" <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>, almkglor <almkglor <at> gmail.com>,
	12216 <12216 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#12216: peek-char incorrectly *CONSUMES* eof
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:02:31 -0400 (EDT)

Mark H Weaver:
> I think I now see a reasonable way to fix this.
> First of all, all interfaces that do something like 'peek' would, when
> returning an EOF, set a 'pending_eof' flag in the port structure...

That's awesome, and it sounds like it'd work well.

Thanks for looking into this.

--- David A. Wheeler
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