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Connecting stream filters in CL

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I'm currently prototyping a system of multiple interconnected string
filters and am wondering what the best practices are regarding the
Common Lisp streams API.

If i had a filter function like:

| (defun number-lines (in out)
|   (handler-case
|     (loop with line = ""
|           and number = 1
|           do (setf line (read-line in))
|              (format out "~D: ~A" number line)
|              (incf number))
|     (end-of-file (e))))

how would i go about chaining two calls together?

A macro that takes advantage of the string stream types immediately
comes to mind:

| (defmacro pipe ((writing &body in) (reading &body out))
|   `(let ((,reading
|            (make-string-input-stream
| 	    (let ((,writing (make-string-output-stream)))
| 	      ,@in
| 	      (get-output-stream-string ,writing)))))
|      ,@out))

You could also write wrappers around C pipe(2) or mkfifo. None of these
seem like such a good fit for Common Lisp streams though, considering
their implementation should already come with some kind of buffering
built in. Allegro CL exposes a make-pipe-streams and a
make-function-input-stream function, but no such luck in SBCL it seems.

Any quicklisp packages featuring this exact functionality or
alternatives i'm missing?

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Connecting stream filters in CL luxhalitus <luxhalitus@null.invalid> - 2025-11-05 10:18 +0000
  Re: Connecting stream filters in CL steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-08 12:33 -0400
  Re: Connecting stream filters in CL steve g <Sgonedes1977@gmail.com> - 2026-06-22 15:50 -0400

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