From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.esat.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader3.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: CLOSE and OUTPUT-STREAM-P References: <3226652067142909@naggum.net> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3226677650284867@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:20:34 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader3.kpnqwest.net 1017688834 193.71.199.50 (Mon, 01 Apr 2002 21:20:34 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 21:20:34 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:30730 * Sam Steingold | 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. /// -- In a fight against something, the fight has value, victory has none. In a fight for something, the fight is a loss, victory merely relief.