Re: proposal to include functions to read data from files

1)   Agreed,  numericalio.lisp is better name than is io.lisp. Please 
rename it.

2)   I would like somebody else to take over numericalio.lisp; however, 
before you put it in the 
       contrib directory, let me try to fix  one bug.  Given the current 
design, it might not be worth fixing.
       If that's the case, I might comment out the offending feature. 

3)  If the volunteer starts from scratch, it's fine with me. 

4) io.lisp uses ignore-errors.  This function  is missing from gcl  2-5.0. 
   I'll report this bug to the 
      gcl folks (maybe they know about it already.)

5) You might consider making directory named something like 
/contrib/extra-io.  I can think of a few
     projects (such as reading  and writing spreadsheet files) that would 
belong in this new directory.


Barton