From 5b1fb9d5c6d57bf9abea2ca42a72012473bc269a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:03:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] io: add ByteScanner, RuneScanner interfaces

R=r, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4530069
---
 src/pkg/io/io.go | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/pkg/io/io.go b/src/pkg/io/io.go
index 1ad1129923..846dcacb5a 100644
--- a/src/pkg/io/io.go
+++ b/src/pkg/io/io.go
@@ -162,6 +162,18 @@ type ByteReader interface {
 	ReadByte() (c byte, err os.Error)
 }
 
+// ByteScanner is the interface that adds the UnreadByte method to the
+// basic ReadByte method.
+//
+// UnreadByte causes the next call to ReadByte to return the same byte
+// as the previous call to ReadByte.
+// It may be an error to call UnreadByte twice without an intervening
+// call to ReadByte.
+type ByteScanner interface {
+	ByteReader
+	UnreadByte() os.Error
+}
+
 // RuneReader is the interface that wraps the ReadRune method.
 //
 // ReadRune reads a single UTF-8 encoded Unicode character
@@ -171,6 +183,18 @@ type RuneReader interface {
 	ReadRune() (rune int, size int, err os.Error)
 }
 
+// RuneScanner is the interface that adds the UnreadRune method to the
+// basic ReadRune method.
+//
+// UnreadRune causes the next call to ReadRune to return the same rune
+// as the previous call to ReadRune.
+// It may be an error to call UnreadRune twice without an intervening
+// call to ReadRune.
+type RuneScanner interface {
+	RuneReader
+	UnreadRune() 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([]byte(s))
-- 
2.48.1