External Formats
Dynamism
- New in Allegro CL 6.0: A stream's external-format can be changed dynamically.
- (setf (stream-external-format stream) external-fmt)
- Useful if a socket is being used to transmit/receive characters with multiple encodings.
- Compiler used at runtime to build high-speed inline external-format converters.
- Converters can be pre-compiled.