Not sure what you mean. As opposed to text streams?
Binary streams as in binary data, as opposed to text.
Calling read-char repeatedly is probably not efficient; besides,
read-char may not be the same as read-byte (if utf8 is loaded).
Actually 'read-byte' uses the builtin 'read-char' when the utf8 egg is
loaded. I was wrong about ##sys#custom-*-port not working w/ UTF8, at
least in the broader sense. Excellent.
1. I can't find the documentation for read-byte. I didn't even realize
that read-byte existed. What i meant was that read-char might read
multiple bytes, when the programmer wanted to read a single byte of
binary data.
2. You did not address the other point -- calling read-char repeatedly
is probably not efficient. I think being able to read binary data
efficiently is mandatory for a language that's supposed to be practical, no?
Best,
Dan
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