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[Robert Strandh]

Daniel Barlow writes:
 > CLOS
 > dispatch in single charcter output is likely to be really rather slow

Yes.  Could this be solved by simply adding stream-read-sequence and
stream-write-sequence methods to the protocol?  Probably not if we
need to keep track of column position as well, which is another reason
for eliminating the GFs that talk about columns. 

-- 
Robert Strandh

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