[usocket-devel] Support for external-format, element-type

[Marijn Haverbeke]

Hello list,

I'm considering switching from trivial-sockets to usocket, seeing that the
former is completely unmaintained. But, while the open-stream function does
accept :external-format and :element-type arguments, it just raises an
'unsupported' condition when they are passed. It would be rather trivial to
support these parameters in SBCL, but that would mean changing the
open-stream function itself, either make it throw those errors depending on
the platform (ugly), or move the error throwing into the platform-specific
functions. I guess the latter is preferrable, and I'm willing to write the
patch for that, but I'd like to hear if you people agree with this.

Regards,
Marijn
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