<string-stream>

The superclass of the byte and unicode string implementation classes.

make on <string-stream> may return a subclass of <string-stream>.

Exported from

Modifiers

concrete primary open

Make keywords

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.

Superclasses

Subclasses

Returns a general instance of its first argument.
The superclass of the byte and unicode string implementation classes.
The streams module.
The class of collections whose keys are consecutive integers starting from zero.
The class of sequences with elements that are characters.
The class of all types, including classes and other types.
The class of all Dylan objects.
The superclass of all stream classes.
The class of streams over sequences.
The class of streams over byte strings.
The class of streams over unicode strings.