Namespace: joker.io

v1.0

Contents

• Summary
• Index
• Constants
• Variables
• Functions, Macros, and Special Forms
• Types

Summary

Provides basic interfaces to I/O primitives.

Index

• close
• copy
• pipe

Legend

Constant Variable Function Macro Special form Type GoVar Receiver/Method

Constants

Constants are variables with :const true in their metadata. Joker currently does not recognize them as special; as such, it allows redefining them or their values.

(None.)

Variables

(None.)

Functions, Macros, and Special Forms

• close

  Function v1.0

  (close f)
  

  Closes f (IOWriter, IOReader, or File) if possible. Otherwise throws an error.

• copy

  Function v1.0

  (copy dst src)
  

  Copies from src to dst until either EOF is reached on src or an error occurs.
  Returns the number of bytes copied or throws an error.
  src must be IOReader, e.g. as returned by joker.os/open.
  dst must be IOWriter, e.g. as returned by joker.os/create.

• pipe

  Function v1.0

  (pipe)
  

  Pipe creates a synchronous in-memory pipe. It can be used to connect code expecting an IOReader
  with code expecting an IOWriter.
  Returns a vector [reader, writer].

Types

(None.)