[R6RS] Renaming write-...
Matthew Flatt
mflatt at cs.utah.edu
Sun Aug 6 09:31:28 EDT 2006
At Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:49:42 +0200, Michael Sperber wrote:
>
> Anton van Straaten <anton at appsolutions.com> writes:
>
> > I think Kent wanted peek-char in the proposed I/O convenience library,
> > but it's also in the Port I/O library. Any suggestions about
> > disambiguating its name?
>
> `poll-char'?
"Poll" to me suggests a non-blocking check for a character, as opposed
to a blocking operation that leaves the character intact.
I don't have a good suggestion, though. `inspect-char'?
Matthew
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