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The latest example suggests a question to me... should we suggest also including "write" procedures? E.G.: "Implementations <em>MAY</em> provide the procedures <var>curly-write</var>, <var>neoteric-write</var>, and/or <var>sweet-write</var> as writers that can write c-expressions, n-expressions, and t-expressions respectively. If provided, these procedures <em>SHOULD</em> take a parameter (the object to write) and an optional second parameter (the port). <em>SHOULD</em> support an optional port parameter. They <em>SHOULD</em> otherwise have the semantics of the underlying <var>write</var> procedure. Implementations <em>MAY</em> also provide -shared and -simple variants of these per R7RS." I'm not sure about sweet-write, mainly because that's essentially a pretty-printer and should probably be defined in a separate module (and should probably be defined in a separate SRFI, too). But curly-write and neoteric-write seem like really useful procedures to at least recommend. People can write their own, of course, but we want them to be *easy* to use. We actually have implementations of these procedures (without cycle detection); they could be easily moved into the reference implementation. But the first question is, should they be included in the spec at all? --- David A. Wheeler