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

Thanks!

So we have in Racket:

~a => *a*esthetic formatting, human-readable, as of display

~s => *s*tandard formatting, suitable for input to read, as of write

~v => *v*alue formatting, whatever handler is currently set
in port-print-handler, by default write



On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 18:30, Jon Zeppieri <zeppieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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