<div dir="ltr"><div>Never one to not jump to my own defense or fail to flog a dead equine, and almost always finding that this is a mistake, I nevertheless venture one last flail. When researching the etymology of the construction "if peek-char is not supplied or nil", I find in the MacLisp manual the precedent for this "variable arity polymorphism based on type" in the definition of "read":<br>
<br>(READ [file] [eofval])<br><br>If only one argument is given, it may be either stream or eofval. If it is a file, an sfa, or NIL, it will be assumed to be stream; otherwise, it will be taken as eofval. <br><br>If file is not supplied or is NIL, the default input stream as controlled by the variables ^Q, INFILE, and TYI will be used. <br>
<br></div><div>Interesting, perhaps, to an infinitiesimal sliver of humanity.<br></div><div><br></div>Erik<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Gary Byers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gb@clozure.com" target="_blank">gb@clozure.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The case where tne PEEK-TYPE argyment is provided as (or defaults to)<br>
NIL is well-defined, as are the cases where it's provided as T or as<br>
a CHARACTER, You're apparently trying to decide how the undefined<br>
case where PEEK-TYPE is a stream should behave.<br>
<br>
I don't see anything in the spec that -reqirres- implementations<br>
to treat undefined cases as errors, but if there's something else<br>
that an implementation could usefully do instaad of signalling an<br>
error CCL's implementation of PEEK-CHAR isn't doing it.<br>
<br>
For all intents and purposes, it is a bug that CCL's PEEK-CHAR<br>
runction doesn't validate its peek-type argument.<br>
<br>
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Erik Pearson wrote:<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm doing some gray streams programming and came across a weird little<br>
corner case. In ccl, when jkI call peek-char with just the gray stream (it is<br>
a string-based stream), ccl hangs. Other lisps (clisp, sbcl) throw an<br>
exception, complaining that the peek-type is not an expected type (one of<br>
the types defined for peek-type - null, t, character)<br>
However, CLHS says:<br>
<br>
If peek-type is not supplied or nil, peek-char returns the next character to<br>
be read from input-stream<br>
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<br>
Note that the case that you're considering is one where the peek-type<br>
argument is supplied as a stream.<br>
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<br>
<a href="http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_peek_c.htm" target="_blank">http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_<u></u>peek_c.htm</a><br>
<br>
So ... wouldn't one expect that (peek-char stream) would behave like<br>
(peek-char nil stream)?<br>
<br>
And as a reminder here is what peek-char looks like:<br>
<br>
peek-char &optional peek-type input-stream eof-error-p eof-value recursive-p<br>
=> char<br>
<br>
So there are two issues here. First is how peek-char should behave when a<br>
stream is the first argument. Second is that ccl should probably not hang in<br>
this situation.<br>
<br>
CCL looks to be doing the right thing by using standard input as the default<br>
stream, which it does because it doesn't think a value has been supplied for<br>
the stream argument. It only inspects the first argument after reading from<br>
the stream, which hangs because there is nothing in standard input (in my<br>
case).<br>
<br>
It should probably inspect the first argument first, and if it is an input<br>
stream either reject it like the other lisps (wrong, imo) or use it as the<br>
input stream if it is a input-stream-p (and make necessary adjustments to<br>
the other arguments).<br>
<br>
Thoughts?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Erik.<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Erik Pearson<br>Adaptations<br>;; web form and function
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