5.11 The STREAMS module

<byte-string-stream>

Open instantiable class

Summary

The class of streams over byte strings.

Superclasses

<string-stream>

Init-keywords

contents:: A general instance of <sequence>.
direction:: Specifies the direction of the stream. It must be one of #"input", #"output", or #"input-output". Default value: #"input".
start:: An instance of <integer>. This specifies the start position of the byte string to be streamed over. Only valid when direction: is #"input". Default value: 0.
end:: An instance of <integer>. This specifies the sequence position immediately after the portion of the byte string to stream over. Only valid when direction: is #"input". Default value: contents.size.

Library

io

Module

streams

Description

The class of streams over byte strings. It is a subclass of <string-stream>.

The class supports the same init-keywords as <sequence-stream>.

The contents: init-keyword is used as the input for an input stream, and as the initial storage for an output stream.

The start: and end: init-keywords specify the portion of the byte string to create the stream over: start: is inclusive and end: is exclusive. The default is to stream over the entire byte string.

Operations

make byte-string-stream-class