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by: pnkfelix  on Thu May  7 10:20:21 2009**\nOur error messages can be confusing because they (sometimes?) use ```display``` instead of ```write``` to print data.\r\n\r\nFor example, consider the following:\r\n\r\n```\r\nLarceny v0.97a4 (alpha test) (May  6 2009 12:07:21, precise:Posix Unix:unified)\r\nlarceny.heap, built on Wed May  6 12:12:27 EDT 2009\r\n\r\n> (vector-length \"#(hi there)\")\r\n\r\n\r\nError: Vector-length: #(hi there) is not a vector.\r\nEntering debugger; type \"?\" for help.\r\ndebug> \r\n```\r\n\r\nI do not see any drawback to using ```write``` rather than ```display``` for ''data'' (there may be an argument when it comes to other components of an error 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be fixed by changeset af97cc115a67f2f16bc4974d4fd8799d3791f956"}}