Generic Function

Summary

Read one character from a stream.

Package

stream

Signature

stream-read-char stream => character

Arguments

stream

An input stream.

Values

character

A character or the :EOF symbol.

Description

The generic function stream-read-char reads one item from stream. The item read is either a character or the end of file symbol :EOF if the stream is at the end of a file. Every subclass of fundamental-character-input-stream must define a method for this function.

See also

fundamental-character-input-stream
stream-unread-char