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5.11 The STREAMS module

inner-stream-setter

Open generic function

Summary

Wraps a stream with a wrapper stream.

Signature

inner-stream-setter stream wrapper-stream => stream 

Arguments

stream
An instance of <stream>.

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

Values

stream
An instance of <stream>.

Library

io

Module

streams

Description

Wraps stream with wrapper-stream. It does so by setting the inner-stream slot of wrapper-stream to stream, and the outer-stream slot of stream to wrapper-stream.

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

See also

inner-stream, page 72

outer-stream-setter, page 81


System and I/O Reference - 31 MAR 2000

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