Kent M Pitman  <pitman@world.std.com> wrote:
+---------------
| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:
| > By following the glossary reference to "recognizable subtype" and
| > thence to SUBTYPEP, I interpreted that to mean that "(unsigned-byte 24)"
| > should be supported in in OPEN by some given implementation iff
| > (subtypep '(unsigned-byte 24) 'integer) => t, t in that implementation.
...
| See farther down in the description of OPEN where it says:
| 
|  With regard to the :element-type option, if a type is requested that
|  is not supported by the file system, a substitution of types such as
|  that which goes on in upgrading is permissible.
+---------------

Ah, o.k., missed that. Thanks,


-Rob

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