Subject: Re: CLOS streams ? (Was: Streams as pipes?)

From: Bruno Haible <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 19:09:37 +0200 (MET DST)

Jörg Höhle <[email-masked]> writes:

> >   if you use a Common Lisp implementation that supports the Gray Proposal
> >   for CLOSified streams, this is a trivial exercise. ...
> 
> How do CLISP's controller streams compare to that proposal?

CLISP's old controller streams are equally powerful as the Gray streams,
but the Gray streams are more elegant and more portable (at least across
CLISP, CMUCL, ACL, LispWorks, as far as I know).

> Is that proposal known to the larger Lisp community?

Maybe it gets more known if I mention the URL:
ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/cl/cleanup/mail/stream-definition-by-user.mail

Bruno