<buffer>

There are two unrelated <buffer> classes. The one exported from Module system represents an in-memory buffer, and the one exported from Module streams represents a stream buffer that is owned by a stream and contains arbitrary types.

Summary

<buffer>	There are two unrelated <buffer> classes.
Dylan Classes
<buffer>	The class of memory buffers.
<buffer>	A class.

Dylan Classes

<buffer>

The class of memory buffers.

Exported from

Module system

Modifiers

concrete free sealed

Make keywords

next:	An instance of <buffer-index>. Defaults to 0.
end:	An instance of <buffer-index>. Defaults to 0.
fill:	An instance of <byte> specifying an initial value for every byte of the buffer. Defaults to 0x00.
size:	An instance of <integer> specifying the size of the vector. The default value is 0.

Superclasses

<simple-vector>

Functions on <buffer>

<buffer>

A class.

Exported from

Module streams

Modifiers

concrete primary sealed

Superclasses

<vector>

Functions on <buffer>

There are two unrelated <buffer> classes.

The System module exports an interface to the C language (the C-FFI) and certain operating system calls.

The streams module.

There are two unrelated types named <buffer-index>.

A constant.

The class of integers.

The class of simple and efficient vectors.

Returns the address of the start of a memory buffer.

There are two unrelated functions named buffer-end.

There are two unrelated functions named buffer-end-setter.

There are two unrelated functions named buffer-next.

There are two unrelated functions named buffer-next-setter.

Copies bytes from one byte collection to another, or copies bytes within a byte collection.

The class of arrays of rank one (i.e., exactly one dimension).

A generic function.