CLHS: System Class FILE-STREAM

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System Class FILE-STREAM

Class Precedence List:

file-stream, stream, t

Description:

An object of type file-stream is a stream the direct source or sink of which is a file. Such a stream is created explicitly by open and with-open-file, and implicitly by functions such as load that process files.

See Also:

load, open, with-open-file

The following X3J13 cleanup issues, not part of the specification, apply to this section:

- STREAM-ACCESS:ADD-TYPES-ACCESSORS
- TYPE-OF-AND-PREDEFINED-CLASSES:UNIFY-AND-EXTEND

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