From sabetts at gmail.com  Sun Jul 19 07:08:23 2009
From: sabetts at gmail.com (Shawn Betts)
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:08:23 -0700
Subject: [cltl3-devel] small proposal for listen function
Message-ID: <62e3e0b30907190008g70192dcat9f983f0fe6ae2d4f@mail.gmail.com>

It'd be way cool if listen looked like this:

(defun listen (timeout &rest streams) ...)

and returned the list of streams that could be read from.

-Shawn



From antoniotti.marco at disco.unimib.it  Mon Jul 20 08:51:49 2009
From: antoniotti.marco at disco.unimib.it (Marco Antoniotti)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:51:49 +0200
Subject: [cltl3-devel] small proposal for listen function
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On Jul 19, 2009, at 09:08 , Shawn Betts wrote:

> It'd be way cool if listen looked like this:
>
> (defun listen (timeout &rest streams) ...)
>
> and returned the list of streams that could be read from.

It'd be cooler if such functionality were provided by a function with  
a different name.  Using LISTEN would cause confusion.

Cheers

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