From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 12:31:33 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <9cd148ea7bd5ff42d9b740141d8d5e9a@felloff.net> References: <9cd148ea7bd5ff42d9b740141d8d5e9a@felloff.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Bread + note -> loss Topicbox-Message-UUID: e5f90242-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i should elaborate. the case were any error or interrupt looks like Beof seems like the right thing for any program that looks like a filter. this is the majority of programs. and this is the current behavior. i wouldn't want to make the simple case tricky. but the hard case should also not be impossible or impossibly tricky, either. the suggestion of having Biobuf.^(read|write) skirts this issue buy allowing a sophisticated program to interrupt itself and recover gracefully, without letting Bio in on the joke. - erik