[plt-scheme] meaning of "->" in proc name

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Fred G. Martin <fredm at cs.uml.edu> wrote:
> I am guessing it is merely a cultural standard to indicate a proc that does
> type conversion, similar to the use of ? in predicates?

This is correct.  If you're used to languages like PHP you should be
aware that Scheme is a very uniform language, and few (none?) of the
special cases that such languages have.

N.