[streams-standard-discuss] Re: Gray streams default method behaviours

[Bruno Haible]

Daniel Barlow wrote:
> The common complaints about Gray streams are: (1) that it's not
> specified which of the interface methods are used in the default
> implementation of which of the others, so you end up having to
> implement /everything/ yourself instead of knowing that

Agreed. The user needs to know 1. what the default method behaviour of each
of the function does 2. for what kind of stream this default behaviour is
sufficient. As a start, you can look at the CLISP documentation of these:
http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/clos-stream.html#gray

Bruno