Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of DesignOfStreams

Timestamp:

01/27/10 21:25:24 (12 years ago)

Author:

vvoutilainen

Comment:

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DesignOfStreams

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 no longer replace stream functions. The stream functionality will be based on closures in the slots of
 the structure-object representing the stream, and those closures will invoke low-level i/o functions that
-are stream-specific. The pretty printer will just setup closures that will extract the underlying stream
+are stream-specific. 
+
+The pretty printer will just setup closures that will extract the underlying stream
 object from a pprint-wrapped stream, and invoke its low-level functions. If pprint wrapping isn't present,
 the slots will contain closures that directly invoke low-level functions of streams. Gray streams will
 still replace the stream functions, because it's capable of invoking the replaced functions.
 
+In addition to these changes, it is planned that the stream function primitives will be moved from the Stream
+java class to a streamfunctions library, allowing the stream functions to be written in lisp rather than java.
+There's an ongoing aspiration to increase the lisp/java code ratio of ABCL, and this new design allows for that.
+
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