On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Christian Stigen Larsen
<[email protected]>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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