Re: Issue: DESCRIBE-INTERACTIVE (Version 4)

[Dan L. Pierson <pierson@mist>]

    You yourself proposed INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P in issue
    STREAM-CAPABILITIES on July 5.  I'm not sure why this issue has
    gotten nowhere, but I suspect it is because two essentially
    unrelated proposals got mixed together; one is
    INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P, the other is the attempt to standardize a
    way to tell whether two streams connect to the same ultimate
    source or sink of data.  I don't think it's at all problematical
    to define INTERACTIVE-STREAM-P in a practically precise enough
    way.
    
True, I haven't been pursuing the issue because it seemed to generate
a lot of opposition and little support.  I'll look through my archives
and see if I can come up with a new version.

I don't oppose your compromise in princple, I'm just reluctant to make
DESCRIBE-INTERACTIVE depend on STREAM-CAPABILITIES' passage.  Of
course, this probably matters more to me than you since I want to
change the status quo and you don't.