[racket] Origin of ~a, ~s, ~v

We added ~v and I thought of it as "value" at the time. (The others we
inherited and I don't know about.)

Robby

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Rodolfo Carvalho <rhcarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm a bit curious about those letters. Where did they come from? Do they
> have a "meaning"?
> ~a => display
> ~s => write
> ~v => print
>
> Apparently there's no correlation between the functionality and the letters
> :(
> Thanks,
> Rodolfo Carvalho
>
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