Ah, quite true, but...
I'm not very happy about READ-IO. It was a put there
during the rush to get 2.0 networking running. You may have
noticed that it was not documented for quite a while. That's
because the proper way to read from any socket is the same as
obtaining a copy of data for any series:
data: copy socket ;-- gets all pending data
data: copy/1024 socket ;-- data up to 1024 units
Easier than:
data: make string! 1030
read-io socket data 1024
Of course, there are reasons to use read-io... when efficiency
is critical for very low level operations.
-Carl
At 11/30/99 06:02 PM +0100, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I do not cease to object (in part:) to the REBOL creator.
>
>Carl wrote:
>"Note that using MAKE like this is really not necessary.
>"REBOL strings automatically grow in size. That
>"is, you can create a string of size 1, then add 99 chars to it
>"w/o a problem. The MAKE is only used for efficiency, when you
>"know the length of the string you want.
>
>According my experience with Rebol and sockets, it's a need a allocate a
>buffer for read-io.
>Of course that does not make the above saying wrong, but shows, that
>sometimes you have to provide enough memory.
>
>Regards
>AR
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