Streaming transport interfaces: input

[Michel Fortin]

On 2010-10-14 16:47:13 -0400, "Steven Schveighoffer" 
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> said:

>> stream.position = StreamBase.atEnd;
> 
> OK, that is acceptable.  What about seeking to N bytes before the end?
> 
> What about seeking N bytes ahead of the current position (as previously 
>  stated)?

Would be nice if we could do all this:

	stream.position = $;
	stream.position = $-10;
	stream.position += 10;

The last one (+=) should be only one function call to avoid two system 
calls. All that's a little hard to implement though.

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Michel Fortin
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