The superclass of the byte and unicode string implementation classes.
make on <string-stream> may return a subclass of <string-stream>.
concrete primary open
| contents: | An instance of <sequence>. Defaults to an empty <string>. |
| direction: | One of #”input”, #”output”, #”input-output”. The default is #”input”. This indicates whether the string is readable or writable or both. |
| element-type: | An instance of <type>. The type of each data element of the stream. The default is <object>. |
| start: | An instance of <object>. The default is 0. |
| end: | An instance of <object>. |
| outer-stream: | An instance of <stream>. Defaults to this instance. |