Re: Is READ-LINE required to return a fresh string?

In article <871w0atbat.fsf@xxxxxxxxx>,
Richard M Kreuter <kreuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I don't think I see anything in the READ-LINE specification that
requires the first return value to be a fresh string. Does anybody
else see such a requirement? (Otherwise, are conforming programs
supposed to copy any line they want to modify or hold on to?)

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RmK

I also can't see it specified.

But I would expect CL:READ-LINE to return a fresh string
on each call.

I would also expect that once CL:READ-LINE returns a string
the user program can use it and change it without affecting
other read/write operations.

I can't remember seeing code that makes other assumptions.

Typical use would be to iterate over the lines of a stream
and collect all the read lines in some data structure.
I would expect that there is no reuse of strings going
on.

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