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From: haible@laplace.ilog (Bruno Haible)
Subject: Re: READ-SEQUENCE
In-Reply-To: pch@mystech.com's message of Thu, 10 Aug 1995 22:03:40 -0500
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Date: 21 Aug 1995 17:24:30 GMT

Pete Halverson <pch@mystech.com> writes:

>   Or does READ-SEQUENCE, like the other general sequence funs, only operate
>   on the active length of SEQUENCE, reads past the fill-pointer being in
>   error?

That's my understanding of the standard.

Please note for portability that, in CLISP, this function is called
READ-CHAR-SEQUENCE for character streams and READ-BYTE-SEQUENCE for
binary streams.


Bruno Haible                                     email: <haible@ilog.fr>
Software Engineer                                phone: +33-1-49083585
