Thanks! So we have in Racket:
~a => *a*esthetic formatting, human-readable, as of display ~s => *s*tandard formatting, suitable for input to read, as of write ~v => *v*alue formatting, whatever handler is currently set in port-print-handler, by default write On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 18:30, Jon Zeppieri <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/22_cd.htm > > Looks like "aesthetic" and "standard." > > -Jon > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Robby Findler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > We added ~v and I thought of it as "value" at the time. (The others we > > inherited and I don't know about.) > > > > Robby > > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Rodolfo Carvalho <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I'm a bit curious about those letters. Where did they come from? Do they > >> have a "meaning"? > >> ~a => display > >> ~s => write > >> ~v => print > >> > >> Apparently there's no correlation between the functionality and the > letters > >> :( > >> Thanks, > >> Rodolfo Carvalho > >> > >> _________________________________________________ > >> For list-related administrative tasks: > >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > >> > > > > _________________________________________________ > > For list-related administrative tasks: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >
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