[R6RS] Changing the transcoding mid-stream  dyb at
cs.indiana.edu dyb at cs.indiana.edu Wed Aug 23 14:27:29 EDT
2006  > > Mike, if this wasn't an oversight that should simply
be fixed by replacing > > call-with-whatever-output-port with
open-whatever-output-port, can you > > explain the rationale?
Assuming there is a rationale, why doesn't it > > apply to the
input versions?  Why doesn't it it apply to the file opener? > >
Is there some reason that call-with-port won't suffice to handle
all > > "call-with" situations? > Yes.  How do you get at the
accumulated output?  Oh, sorry.  I didn't read the descriptions
carefully.  I just assumed there were separate extraction
procedures, and these procedures essentially duplicated the
call-with-port functionality, but of course that isn't the case.
I guess these procedures capture a common usage pattern and are
worth keeping, but they would work for only about half of my
uses of open-output-string, judging from a quick look at the
Chez Scheme source code.  Also, the