Re: [Scheme-reports] Suggestion to put display and newline in the same library

[Alex Shinn <alexshinn@x>]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Christian Stigen Larsen <csl@x> wrote:

Hi,

in the latest draft,

  * newline is in (scheme base)
  * display is in (scheme write)

Wouldn't it make more sense to have them in the same library?

The issue is that in all (or almost all) implementations,

display is defined in terms of write for non-char/string

arguments.  Since write is a large and fairly complicated

procedure, and not actually needed in many programs,

it was moved into a separate library.  Newline, however,

is a much simpler operation defined in terms of write-char.

-- 

Alex

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