Apropos

open-stream-p

Function

    Syntax

    open-stream-p stream generalized-boolean

    Arguments and Values

    stream — a stream.

    generalized-boolean — a generalized boolean.

    Description

    Returns true if stream is an open stream; otherwise, returns false.

    Streams are open until they have been explicitly closed with close, or until they are implicitly closed due to exit from a with-output-to-string, with-open-file, with-input-from-string, or with-open-stream form.

    Examples
    (open-stream-p *standard-input*)  true
    Affected By

    close.

    Exceptional Situations

    Should signal an error of type type-error if stream is not a stream.