Re: CLOSE and OUTPUT-STREAM-P - Naggum cll archive

Subject: Re: CLOSE and OUTPUT-STREAM-P
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:20:34 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3226677650284867@naggum.net>

* Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
| Okay, what about things like STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
| STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT?
| 
| I take it that Erik Naggum will say that CLOSE should not change the
| return values of these functions.

  Yes.  I regard close as modifying one property of a stream, because it is
  important to be able to reopen the stream correctly after it has been
  closed.

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