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@@ -57319,7 +57319,23 @@ string, or a stream. If it is omitted, then .code *stdin* is used as the stream. -The source must provide the text representation of one complete \*(TL object. +The +.meta source +must provide the text representation of one complete \*(TL object. +If +.meta source +and the function being applied is +.codn read , +then if the object is followed by any non-whitespace material, the +situation is treated as a syntax error, even if that material is +a syntactically valid additional object. +The +.code iread +function ignores this situation. Other differences between +.code read +and +.code iread +are given below. Multiple calls to read on the same stream will extract successive objects from the stream. To parse successive objects from a string, it is necessary |