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Re: Issue: STANDARD-INPUT-INITIAL-BINDING (version 8)
- To: "vanroggen%aitg.DEC@decwrl.dec.com"@multimax
- Subject: Re: Issue: STANDARD-INPUT-INITIAL-BINDING (version 8)
- From: Dan L. Pierson <pierson%mist@multimax.ARPA>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 88 18:13:14 EDT
- Cc: cl-cleanup%sail.stanford.edu@multimax
- In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 14 Sep 88 07:20:09 -0700. <8809141420.AA02973@decwrl.dec.com>
This looks pretty good, except I think many implementations would
prefer not to have a requirement that *TERMINAL-IO* be a Common Lisp
stream. Already most implementations bind *TERMINAL-IO* to
implementation dependent streams, and I think in this case it's
best to continue the status quo.
*TERMINAL-IO* obviously has to be bound to a Common Lisp stream in
that it has to work for all of the Common Lisp IO functions, etc. that
take stream arguments. Other than that, I don't see that the proposal
prevents *TERMINAL-IO* from being bound to an implementation dependent
stream type.