Per Bothner scripsit: > I think this is wrong, and (arguably) misunderstands what > display is about, which IMO is to produce plain unadorned > human-readable output without extra delimiters. Infinite > data structures *should* produce infinite output.
How can infinite output be human-readable? Humans don't have infinite life spans. Infinite output can be truncated by another process, but in that case `write-simple` or `write-string` is probably the Right Thing. -- John Cowan [email protected] http://ccil.org/~cowan If he has seen farther than others, it is because he is standing on a stack of dwarves. --Mike Champion, describing Tim Berners-Lee (adapted) _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
