From: Rob Pike <r@golang.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 02:29:43 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: add a standard interface that wraps ReadByte, io.ReadByter
X-Git-Tag: weekly.2010-01-13~57
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fce5d60b38d4656383d893bf5bfa7564448b0204;p=gostls13.git

add a standard interface that wraps ReadByte, io.ReadByter

R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/181163
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diff --git a/src/pkg/io/io.go b/src/pkg/io/io.go
index 5d18476f53..4357d5c6fb 100644
--- a/src/pkg/io/io.go
+++ b/src/pkg/io/io.go
@@ -150,6 +150,14 @@ type WriterAt interface {
 	WriteAt(p []byte, off int64) (n int, err os.Error)
 }
 
+// ReadByter is the interface that wraps the ReadByte method.
+//
+// ReadByte reads and returns the next byte from the input.
+// If no byte is available, err will be set.
+type ReadByter interface {
+	ReadByte() (c byte, err os.Error)
+}
+
 // WriteString writes the contents of the string s to w, which accepts an array of bytes.
 func WriteString(w Writer, s string) (n int, err os.Error) {
 	return w.Write(strings.Bytes(s))