Appendix F Common Lisp Streams
F.5 Binary Streams
Binary streams can be created by defining a class that includes either fundamental-binary-input-stream or fundamental-binary-output-stream (or both) and defining a method for stream-element-type and for one or both of the following generic functions. stream-read-byte [Generic Function]
- Arguments:
- stream
- Summary:
- Returns either an integer or the symbol :eof if stream is at end-of-file. This is used by read-byte.
stream-write-byte [Generic Function]
- Arguments:
- stream integer
- Summary:
- Writes integer to stream and returns integer as the result. This is used by write-byte.
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