Joe Eli McIlvain

@pmetras - I'm confused by your use of numbering - can you please check the numbers in the above comment I gave to make sure they match the use of...

@SeanTAllen asked me to weigh in on this RFC to talk a bit about my reasoning, since he knows I support this RFC. I believe that *minimizing* API surface is...

I have not yet thought of a better name than that.

I definitely agree with the general idea, but I'd prefer to see a signature like this: ```pony fun box peek_u32_be(seq: ReadSeq[U8] box, offset: USize): U32 ? fun box peek_u32_le(seq: ReadSeq[U8]...

@codec-abc - Thanks for giving those concrete examples (TIFF and SDL2) to justify the motivation. You convinced me :wink:. I like the idea you shared of providing both variants so...

@SeanTAllen - As I understood it, the proposal was not to change the way `buffered.Reader` works, but to provide a new `primitive` that has the read-bytes-into-data-types features of `buffered.Reader`, but...

As discussed in the sync call, I'd like to request that the RFC include the method signatures for the new methods.

In the Savi compiler I have adopted this approach, with the small change that it uses the `@` prefix to designate the concept of `this.` (everywhere it appears - not...

Removing from final comment period until the `-` vs `_` point is addressed in some way.

We discussed this on today's sync call. We discussed a lot of different options, but @sylvanc suggested (and @kulibali, @mfelsche, and I agreed) that a good alternative to solve this...