The program I'm writing is passing a ParrotIO object about to various functions (the ParrotIO object being either stdin or a file handle to a regular file). Each function can read as many bytes as it likes from the descriptor. There are times, however, where I might decide that I don't want the byte I just read, and need to push it back onto the stream. This brings up (I think) two ways around the problem:
1) I'd like to be able to peek ahead at a byte, before actually consuming it. ie)
Yes, Parrot will get an "unget" and "peek". Now that the buffering layer is mostly working it should be quite easy.
I've had a bad bout with the flu for the last 7 days. As soon as I can sit up again I'll see about patching it in.
-Melvin
