Hi Tomas, > I would expect 'char' to block and return next character when > available and 'peek' return the next character if available otherwise > return "nothing" without blocking.
On that level there is no concept of blocking. Data are read as a logical stream. Something similar to what you suggest might be achieved with 'poll', but not completely, and probably not in our case. 'peek' returning "nothing" would have a different meaning. For "normal" operations I *do* it want to block, until I receive all data. > I guess it seems broken to me because of the two char lookahead in > 'char', but is it necessary? Is it "only" to handle different line > endings? 'char' has to cooperate with 'read', 'line', 'till', 'skip, etc. And the logic behind these functions (most notably 'read') require that internally there is always a single-character lookahead, and thus one more character read than necessary. Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
