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Re: port-line broken?

hjstein@bfr.co.il (Harvey J. Stein) writes:

> The guile docs say:
> 
>  - primitive: port-line [INPUT-PORT]
>      Return the current column number or line number of INPUT-PORT,

> However, it doesn't seem to work:
> 
>    guile> (define p (open-input-file "extract.scm"))
>    guile> (port-line p)
>    0
>    guile> (read-line p)
[...]
> Is this broken, or is it me?

read-line doesn't update the line counter in the port.

This is a Guile bug.

/mdj