17 The STREAM package

stream-write-sequence

Generic Function

Summary

Writes a subsequence of a sequence to a stream.

Package

stream

Signature

stream-write-sequence stream sequence start end => result

Arguments

stream: A stream.
sequence: A sequence.
start: An integer.
end: An integer.

Values

result: A sequence.

Description

The generic functionstream-write-sequence is used bywrite-sequence to write a subsequence of sequence delimited by start and end to stream.

A default method is provided byfundamental-character-output-stream that tests each element of sequence in turn, and then usesstream-write-char or produces an error. A default method is provided byfundamental-binary-output-stream that tests each element of sequence in turn, and then usesstream-write-byte or produces an error.