[r6rs-discuss] No way to set current-output-port to a non-file port?

[Michael Sperber]

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
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