with-output-to-fasl-file

with-output-to-fasl-file Macro

Summary

Opens a file in a binary format that can be used to dump objects.

Package

hcl

Signature

with-output-to-fasl-file (fasl-stream-var pathname &key overwrite dump-standard-objects delete-on-error) &body body => nil

Arguments

`fasl-stream-var`⇩	A variable.
`pathname`⇩	A pathname designator.
`overwrite`⇩	A boolean.
`dump-standard-objects`⇩
	A boolean.
`delete-on-error`⇩	A boolean.
`body`⇩	Lisp forms that call dump-form.

Description

The macro with-output-to-fasl-file helps to dump forms to a file in a binary format, which can then be loaded using load-data-file.

with-output-to-fasl-file binds fasl-stream-var to an opaque structure associated with pathname. Inside body, dump-form can be used to dump individual forms to the file.

See dump-forms-to-file for a description of how overwrite, delete-on-error and dump-standard-objects are used.

A fasl file created using with-output-to-fasl-file must be loaded only by load-data-file, and not by load.