[R6RS] Really trivial I/O question

[dyb at cs.indiana.edu]

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

I suspect it was to avoid a "gratuitous incompatibility" with Common Lisp,
which in retrospect was probably not a good rationale.

> 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.

I prefer display-string.

Kent