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doco write and display
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Kevin Ryde |
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doco write and display |
Date: |
Sun, 04 May 2003 09:07:18 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
I thought to add something for `write' in the manual, and to emphasise
the machine/human readability of it versus `display'.
* scheme-io.texi (Writing): Add write, revise display.
New text, for contemplation:
- Scheme Procedure: write obj [port]
Send a representation of OBJ to PORT or to the current output port
if not given.
The output is designed to be machine readable, and can be read back
with `read' (*note Reading::). Strings are printed in
doublequotes, with escapes if necessary, and characters are
printed in `#\' notation.
- Scheme Procedure: display obj [port]
Send a representation of OBJ to PORT or to the current output port
if not given.
The output is designed for human readability, it differs from
`write' in that strings are printed without doublequotes and
escapes, and characters are printed as per `write-char', not in
`#\' form.
scheme-io.texi.write-display.diff
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