··@inferno.nirvananet (Hartmann Schaffer) writes:
> In article <··············@orion.dent.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>,
> ····@acm.org (Pierre R. Mai) writes:
> > ...
> > If your implementation offers gray streams, then you can hide the
>
> i have seen references to gray streams several times now, but am not
> familiar with them. what are they and where can i find a definition?
What is generally referred to as "Gray Streams" is David Gray's
proposed portable protocol for user-extensible streams. The original
proposal can be found at:
ftp://parcftp.xerox.com/pub/cl/cleanup/mail/stream-definition-by-user.mail
The concept also made it into the CLIM specification as Appendix D
(Common Lisp Streams). The CLIM spec can be found at:
ftp://ftp.franz.com/pub/clim/clim-spec/
There is also some work going on at Franz to produce an extended
proposal in this area. Quoting from Duane Rettig's posting from 26
Jan 2000 on c.l.l (<·············@beta.franz.com>):
> Because of this and further discussion, we have standardized on the
> term "octet" when we describe 8-bits specifically. The proposal that
> resulted from this is part of a design of an I/O system, which will
> complement the current Gray streams system we currently have, but
> which will address various issues of stream mutivalency, multibyte
> character sets and locales, speed, and a few other problems that the
> CL spec and Gray streams don't currently address. We hope to publish
> this proposal soon, long before our next major release.
See also previous postings on c.l.l on gray streams...
Regs, Pierre.
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