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Re: Issue: STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE-EXAMPLES
- To: ROSENKING@A.ISI.EDU
- Subject: Re: Issue: STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE-EXAMPLES
- From: masinter.pa@Xerox.COM
- Date: 26 Oct 88 15:26 PDT
- Cc: CL-CLEANUP@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
- In-reply-to: ROSENKING@A.ISI.EDU's message of 26 Oct 88 16:49 EDT
I think there are some genuine ambiguities around STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE. The
issue is whether streams need to remember their element-type, even in
implementations that allow both binary and character I/O to the same
stream.