# New Ticket Created by Cory Spencer # Please include the string: [perl #25265] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=25265 >
'peek' implements an opcode which can look ahead at an arbitrary number of bytes in a IO stream, but does not remove the bytes from the stream in the process.
While handy, there are some issues we need to deal with. The IO handles aren't really streams for one thing, which makes something like this somewhat problematic.
Ages ago I spec'd out the basic IO system, but it's been years (unfortunately) and I think we need to readdress it. (And not in a thread that gets stuck in a ticket :)
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