From: David Bakhash
Subject: Lisp streams...
Date: 
Message-ID: <cxj3dzb3r78.fsf@acs5.bu.edu>
Perl has this really useful stream features where you can read as much data
off of a stream, and then when there's no more data to be read, it is done,
and it tells you how many bytes were read off the stream.  Of course, all of
this has to do with socket I/O, but I just want to know:

Is there a way, without somthing like mp:with-timeout, to have the behavior of
read-sequence if it could be made to complete when there's no more data on the
stream?  Note that what I'm talking about is not an EOF.

dave