From: Bill Vrotney
Subject: Does CLTL need a COMPILE-STREAM function?
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 1990 03:55:13 +0000
Message-ID: <11665@zodiac.ADS.COM>

I need to  be able  to  compile  to  a  file  from a  (general) stream
(instead of  from a file  stream). The reason  being is that for  this
specific application there is generated  a collection  of forms and NO
SOURCE FILE is allowed to exist for them.  So the forms will come from
a stream and be compiled to a file.  Is there a  way to  do this under
the constraints of CLTL (1 or 2)?

It is as if I could do

        (compile-file <any-stream> :output-file <some-file>)


If not, should CLTL have specified a function

        compile-stream <stream>  &optional :output-stream

that provides the above desired functionality?  Or is there  some good
reason why this was not done?


Bill Vrotney


Bill Vrotney