Re: New multilingual text support

[Jim Blandy <jimb AT red-bean dot com>]

> > Guile is going to use that model, too.  Encodings are layers on top
> > of ports that write binary data.  Our port model needs (or already
> > has?  I need to catch up with Gary) some sort of synchronization
> > primitive, so you can tell the upper layer, "settle things with the
> > port under you", frob the underlying port, and then go back to
> > normal.  But I haven't thought this through completely yet.
> 
> Gray streams from the CL world may be a place to steal lots of good
> ideas.  Especially now that we have GOOPS, it might be possible to
> steal a whole lot.

Are "Gray streams" the streams described in the ugly green book?