TITLE

Stream::Base - Stream library base class

VERSION

version 0.1

This is an abstract baseclass that is not supposed to be used directly.

TBD

assign stream, source
close
stream."dump"() (debug aid): Dumps the content of the stream.; Returns nothing.
copyTo
source = stream."source"(): Returns the currently set source.
is = stream."connected"(): Returns 1 if the stream is connected, 0 otherwise.; It is connected until the source sub returns.
str = stream."read"(): Returns the read string, or a null string if the stream end has been reached.
stream."include"( stream2 ): Include stream2 in this stream. The next read on this stream will act on the included stream.; Please have a look at examples/streams/Include.pir to see how it works.
stream."flush"() (internal): Used to flush the stream when including another stream.
stream."read_bytes"( number ): Reads the specified number of bytes from the stream.
stream."byte_buffer"() (internal): Returns or sets the byte buffer.

Jens Rieks <parrot at jensbeimsurfen dot de> is the author and maintainer. Please send patches and suggestions to the Perl 6 Internals mailing list.