Re: proposal to include functions to read data from files

Greetings!

Barton Willis <willisb@unk.edu> writes:

> 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. 

Just a note -- should be available in more recent GCL.

Take care,

>    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
> 
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