[Openmcl-devel] stream-read-sequence

[Gary Byers]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Geoff Cant wrote:

>
> I'm also interested in the stream-read-sequence stuff for porting
> cl-ssl (from portableaserve) to openmcl. Is it a case of defining
> stream-read-sequence as a generic function then have the default
> method call read-sequence with the arguments reversed?
>
> --Geoff

[I'm on the road and don't have a very good net connection at the moment,
so there may be even more typos here than usual ... ]

What Geoff suggests would work fine.  If a stream class offers special
methods for reading or writing vectors (or, less likely, lists),
READ-SEQUENCE and WRITE-SEQUENCE will call those methods.

The original Gray streams proposal was written before READ-SEQUENCE
and WRITE-SEQUENCE were added to CL, and some implementations add (and
OpenMCL once added) STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE in
an attempt to address this omission; it seems preferable to specialize
things at a somewhat lower level, to handle :START and :END args and
non-simple vector cases in the caller and let the stream-specific
methods concentrate on BLTing things around.

>
> ocorrain at yahoo.com (Tiarnán Ó Corráin) writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to get cxml working, as a component of bknr-sputnik, but it
>> chokes at stream-read-sequence. This function seems to be missing from
>> the :gray package, although a previous version 0.13.3 hints that it
>> was once there.
>>
>> Is this function available in openmcl 0.14.3?
>>
>> regards
>> --
>> Tiarnán
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