26 Feb
2008
26 Feb
'08
4:28 p.m.
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 00:50 +1100, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote:
Ross Paterson wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:31:43AM +1100, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote:
I'm probably mistaken, but doesn't this proposal mean that I can't implement cat in H98 using text I/O? That would be a bit disturbing.
That is already the case, at least for binary files.
Ok, cat is a bad example. Any kind of simple text processing, really, that assumes that reading a character from stdin and writing it to stdout is really just copying.
Well it would copy valid text files, possibly with some normalisation in encoding. Duncan