[Ecls-list] with-clos-streams=no => without cmu format

[Raymond Toy]

On 3/15/10 11:24 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> CMU (or SBCL) has something call "ANSI" streams, or something like
> that, which are structures that behave like streams. They are used by
> the pretty printer and also by FORMAT.
>
> In ECL we do not have that. We cannot cast arbitrary structures and
> impose that I/O operations work on them. The closest thing are Gray
> streams and this is what we use to implement CMU's FORMAT and pretty
> printer.
>
Ah, that makes sense now.   Thanks for the clarification.

Ray