Talk:Terminal control/Positional read

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Very Difficult

Just so that people know up front before trying to implement this, it is exceptionally difficult to do because “read displayed character” (whether at the current or a specific location) is not an operation that forms part of the standard set of operations. –Donal Fellows 13:01, 17 October 2010 (UTC)