From 6e3410cf9bf032c28e74424ade49007abd88c853 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: toy <toy> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 03:31:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Remove the explicit test for stream element type of character. Was preventing us from reading from string-streams, among other things. --- code/stream.lisp | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/code/stream.lisp b/code/stream.lisp index 01c588a2a..1a58b669b 100644 --- a/code/stream.lisp +++ b/code/stream.lisp @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ ;;; Carnegie Mellon University, and has been placed in the public domain. ;;; (ext:file-comment - "$Header: /Volumes/share2/src/cmucl/cvs2git/cvsroot/src/code/stream.lisp,v 1.59 2003/03/17 10:36:42 emarsden Exp $") + "$Header: /Volumes/share2/src/cmucl/cvs2git/cvsroot/src/code/stream.lisp,v 1.60 2003/03/19 03:31:24 toy Exp $") ;;; ;;; ********************************************************************** ;;; @@ -2001,7 +2001,11 @@ POSITION: an INTEGER greater than or equal to zero, and less than or (declare (type stream stream)) (declare (type index start end)) (let ((stream-et (stream-element-type stream))) - (cond ((subtypep (stream-element-type stream) 'character) + ;; What is the purpose of this explicit test for characters? It + ;; prevents reading a string-stream into a vector, like the + ;; example in the CLHS. + (cond #+nil + ((subtypep (stream-element-type stream) 'character) (error 'type-error :datum (read-byte stream nil 0) :expected-type (stream-element-type stream) ; Bogus?!? -- GitLab