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5.11 The STREAMS module

outer-stream-setter

Open generic function

Summary

Sets a stream's wrapper stream.

Signature

outer-stream-setter wrapper-stream stream => wrapper-stream 

Arguments

wrapper-stream
An instance of <wrapper-stream>.

stream
An instance of <stream>.

Values

wrapper-stream
An instance of <wrapper-stream>.

Library

io

Module

streams

Description

Sets the outer-stream slot of stream to wrapper-stream.

Note: Applications should not set inner-stream and outer-stream slots directly. The outer-stream-setter function is for use only when implementing stream classes.

See also

inner-stream-setter, page 73

outer-stream, page 80


System and I/O Reference - 31 MAR 2000

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