# The TextRd interface

A `TextRd.T`, or text reader, is a reader that delivers the characters of a `TEXT` supplied when the reader was created. Text readers are seekable, non-intermittent, and never raise `Failure` or `Alerted`.

    INTERFACE TextRd;

    IMPORT Rd;

    TYPE
      T <: Public;
      Public = Rd.T OBJECT METHODS init(t: TEXT): T END;

The call `rd.init(t)` initializes `rd` as a seekable, non-intermittent reader with:

     len(rd) = Text.Length(t)
     src(rd) = characters of t
     cur(rd) = 0

It is a checked runtime error if `t = NIL`.

    PROCEDURE New(t: TEXT): T;

Equivalent to `NEW(T).init(t)`.

    END TextRd.