stream-write-sequence

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Generic Function

Package: EXCL

Arguments: (fundamental-output-stream string &optional start end)

The nongeneric functions cl:read-sequence and cl:write-sequence are implemented by calling steam-read-sequence and this generic function. Methods are defined for these functions that handle all legal calls, but not all legal calls will have highly efficient execution. The existing methods will handle non-simple vector sequence arguments efficiently, and will also handle start and end arguments efficiently. The Allegro CL implementation will also accept and efficiently transfer data to and from higher-dimension arrays in the usual row-major order, although this is an extension to the language and not defined by the X3J13 specification. (The portable way to do this is to displace a vector to the higher-rank array.)

The implementation contains optimized methods for input and output (but not bidirectional) file-streams of all element types.

See streams.htm for general information on streams in Allegro CL.

The general documentation description is in introduction.htm. The index in index.htm.