5.11 The STREAMS module
type-for-file-stream
Open generic function
Summary
Finds the type of file-stream class that needs to be instantiated for a given file.
Signature
type-for-file-stream filename element-type #rest #all-keys
=> file-stream-type
Arguments
- filename
- An instance of
<object>. - element-type
- One of
<byte-character>,<unicode-character>, or<byte>, or#f.
Values
- file-stream-type
- An instance of
<type>.
Library
io
Module
streams
Description
Returns the kind of file-stream class to instantiate for a given file. The method for make on <file-stream> calls this function to determine the class of which it should create an instance.