[V3dot10] Re: 0006583: PositionableStream>>back behavior is totallywrong

[Damien Cassou]

2007/8/1, Ron Teitelbaum <Ron at usmedrec.com>:
> Klaus,
>
> I was just reading Damien's new code and even though the current
> implementation does position correctly it returns the wrong value.  Damien's
> code returns the proper back value and replaces #next with #peek, to leave
> the position in the right place.
>
> It's a good change.  Not sure I support leaving #oldBack for long though.
> There doesn't appear to be much use of getting a returned result 2 positions
> back from a call to oldBack.

I'm not sure keeping #oldBack is something we want. But, keeping it
may be better accepted by the community. I don't know. What do you
think?

-- 
Damien Cassou