From sperber at deinprogramm.de  Thu May  1 03:10:57 2008
From: sperber at deinprogramm.de (Michael Sperber)
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 09:10:57 +0200
Subject: [r6rs-discuss] No way to set current-output-port to a non-file
	port?
In-Reply-To: <231B6AA7-8262-4136-9D43-2F9DD59A2F1C@gmail.com> (Ryan Newton's
	message of "Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:56:58 -0400")
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Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> writes:

> To clarify -- the question is why is there with-output-to-file rather  
> than with-output-to-port?

For compatibility with R5RS mainly.  The `current-output-port' procedure
is also there for that reason---in addition, it needs to be there so
that there's a single natively encoded port for standard output.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, V?lkerverst?ndigung und ?berhaupt blabla