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

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/22_cd.htm

Looks like "aesthetic" and "standard."

-Jon


On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> 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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