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Re: Documentation cut and paste error for byte input?


From: Michał Bieliński
Subject: Re: Documentation cut and paste error for byte input?
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:22:41 +0100
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Dnia 23 Listopada 2013, 15:15, So, Sean Charles napisał
> 8.13  Byte input/output
>
>
> These built-in predicates enable a single byte to be input from and output
> to a binary stream. -1 is returned to indicate the end-of-file.
>
>
> How do I know the difference between 0xFF and the end of file then?
> I looked at 8.12 and it looks like it might just be a cut and paste
> thing going in there.

Note that the above says byte input, not byte return type.  I think it is
the same as getc() in C.  It reads bytes but returns larger integer to
facilitate signaling end of file.

Under these assumptions 0xFF would be 255, not -1.

-- 
Michał Bieliński




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