Re: Bin Module does not work well with Streams

On 7.6.2017 17:34, Michael Kay wrote:
> But I think my approach here would be different. I would support the bin:part#3 function as specified, albeit inefficiently, and offer a different function perhaps bin:read-up-to($in, $start, $len) which reads from $start to the end of $in or to $len whichever comes first.

+1

As there are two different use-cases -- "read exactly N bytes" and "read
as much as possible" I would also prefer not change existing function
behaviour and introduce new function as Mike suggested.

   Jirka

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