refactor: make fread more general

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refactor: make fread more general #1421

Open scolsen opened 2 years ago

scolsen commented 2 years ago

fread can technically accept any object -- it takes a void pointer. Our current implementation assumes the object is a String, which limits the applicability of this function. This change alters the definition to accept any type.

scolsen commented 2 years ago

If anyone has good ideas around how to do this in a way that won't break existing callers, please share!