[plt-scheme] Interactive input

On Jan 19, Gregory Woodhouse wrote:
> I realize this is a basic question, but...
> 
> In a naive attempt to write a function that could either accept  
> interactive (keyboard) input or read from a file, I tried writing a  
> loop that repeatedly called read-line and then tested to see if the  
> value was eof-object. In retrospect, it's not terribly surprising  
> that it didn't work (presumably, the return value was eof-object when  
> no input was ready), but what is the alternative? I can try reading  
> input a character at a time, repeatedly using peek-char, but that  
> seems ugly and cumbersome. I can write a special reader for input  
> that comes from the keyboard, a telnet session, or a similar source,  
> and a different one for files on disk, but is that necessary? The  
> input will be program text, but not (necessarily) Scheme or Lisp and  
> I cannot assume that the input will be in the form of S-expressions.

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