On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 12:10, Matt Diephouse wrote:I'm still working on a new Forth implementation...
Forth has a word `key` that gets one character from stdin. It shouldn't wait for a newline to get the character. Is there any way to implement this currently in PIR?
You can't do this in a standard, portable way in C, so I doubt that PIR has such a mechanism.
Hell, you can't do useful IO in a portable way period. Which is why we're not going to. :-P
Parrot wedges code between the system and the interpreter to provide a portable async IO layer, or at least we will once that gets done.
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