Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> 1] ABOUT RECENT CHANGES IN TRUNK:
[...]
> - Since It is far more simple to handle the zoo of line delimiters in Kernel
>   (CompositionScanner / DispalyScanner / String / Stream)

Hey, you beat me to it ;-) I had looked at this a little while ago but 
missed the subtlety in CompositionScanner and friends. Great job!

> 2] IMPORTANT NOTE AND QUESTION:
> 
> SocketStream>>nextLine does insist on finding a CR-LF pair.
> This is used in some major protocols.
> But I find this abusive, and would like to change the default behavior
> to that of Stream.
> This would be a nice property that a SocketStream behaves like a
> FileStream or an ExternalStream.
> Should I proceed ?

I don't really care as long as the default behavior is strict (i.e., no 
magic detection of line ends). OTOH, I'm not sure how useful it would 
be; there is something to be said for strict handling in network protocols.

Cheers,
   - Andreas