[plt-scheme] Bug in write?

From: John Clements (clements at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 7 18:43:13 EDT 2003

On Monday, Jul 7, 2003, at 20:31 US/Eastern, Saint Katsmall T. Wise, 
Esquire wrote:

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> #3(-14 2) is a vector of length three which has -14 and 2 as the first 
> two parts and 2 for the rest.
> Thus, #3(-14 2) is in fact the same as #3(-14 2 2). write outputs it 
> as #3(-14 2) because for program-readabilty it is enough, and display 
> outputs it as human readable #3(-14 2 2).

FWIW, I believe we inherit this behavior from Chez.

john clements



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