Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] Purpose of IO.nread

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> I'm slightly confused as to why the block reading primitive in the new
> IO module is the equivalent of Pervasives.really_input rather than
> Pervasives.input.  It seems rather odd to have an input abstraction
> provide, as a primitive, a function which cannot be used on stdin...

Could you explain how really_input cannot be used on stdin ? Maybe I
misunderstood the differences with input, but the documentation doesn't say
anything about really_input not working on stdin.

Regards,
Nicolas Cannasse