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Comments on the draft standard
On the other hand, I now agree that read/write shouldn't return #f or
#t. The problem is, I really don't want to have to be killed (an
error is signalled...) when a read/write fails. I believe that the
best solution would be to add a third optinal argument to everything
that takes a port, the argument being of the form
Hopefully a condition/error handling subsystem will be added to a
future version of the standard. In the meantime condition handling is
implementation dependent.
As far as WRITE is concerned, I think it should handle all kinds of
objects, and signal no errors of this kind.