<stream-position>

Abstract class

Summary

The class representing non-integer stream positions.

Superclasses

<object>

Init-keywords

None.

Library

io

Module

streams

Description

A direct subclass of <object>. It is used in rare cases to represent positions within streams that cannot be represented by instances of <integer>. For example, a stream that supports compression will have some state associated with each position in the stream that a single integer is not sufficient to represent.

The <stream-position> class is disjoint from the class <integer>.

Operations

as stream-position-setter stream-size

See also

<position-type>, page 82

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System and I/O Reference - 31 MAR 2000