[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] The standard-*-port procedures should return a fresh binary port

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Thu Feb 8 23:14:41 2007

Per Bothner scripsit:

> One possible approach is that (current-output-port) gets
> lazily initialized to a textual stream bound to (standard-output-port),
> on first use.

Your point is an excellent one, and I favor your solution, although
eager initialization is probably good enough. This would be where
you apply the native-everything transcoder.

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