io: update ByteScanner and RuneScanner docs to match long-standing implementations
Do not require the byte or rune unread by the call to match the last
return from ReadByte or ReadRune, since in practice the
implementations of these methods (especially ReadByte) may also unread
bytes from other Read-style methods without reporting an error.
Explicitly allow the Seek-like behavior implemented by bytes.Reader
and bufio.Reader, which can “unread” bytes that were never actually
read.
Explicitly allow ReadByte or ReadRune to return an error after a call
to a non-ReadByte or non-ReadRune operation respectively.
(In practice, implementations today allow very liberal calls to
ReadByte and tend to be more strict about ReadRune, but it seems
simpler to keep the two definitions completely parallel.)
Like CL 349054, this is techincally a breaking change, but given the
long-standing behavior of the implementations in the Go standard
library (such as strings.Reader, bytes.Buffer, and bufio.Reader),
I believe it falls under the “specification errors” exception to the
Go 1 compatibility policy.
Fixes #48449
Change-Id: I61696a59770fe83c667377ba25a072762d3f6f19
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/351809
Trust: Bryan C. Mills <bcmills@google.com>
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