Re: Why are byte ports "ports" as such?

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Marc Feeley scripsit:

> On Scheme implementations that do not support SRFI 88, the variables
> ``direction:'', ``char-encoding:'', etc are defined to evaluate to
> the symbol of the same name.

Excellent.

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