[R6RS] Really trivial I/O question

Michael Sperber sperber
Thu Mar 3 10:34:20 EST 2005


Can anyone provide a rationale why WRITE-CHAR isn't called
DISPLAY-CHAR?  Looking at:

http://zurich.csail.mit.edu/pipermail/rrrs-authors/1985-March/000058.html

it seems that it was DISPLAY-CHAR originally, which in turn suggests
that the change was intentional.

The related question, of course, is whether a procedure to output a
string (or a byte vector or a whatever) should be called WRITE-STRING
or DISPLAY-STRING.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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