That page actually suggests they're inherited from Common Lisp, which seems very likely (and probably from some other Lisp before that).
Sam On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 8:59 PM Sorawee Porncharoenwase <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had this question too. It looks like they are inherited from Scheme. > > ~a = any > ~s = s-expression > > See http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/format#documentation. > > There's no ~v. IIUC, there's no `print` in Scheme. > > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 5:50 PM primer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> I'm reading the documentation about formatted output where it says: >> ~a or ~A displays the next argument >> ~s or ~S writes the next argument >> ~v or ~V prints the next argument >> >> I can't help thinking these would be more intuitive if they were spelled ~d, >> ~w, and ~p. >> >> Perhaps I can remember them better if someone could explain where the >> letters come from. Can anyone explain? >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/979731d3-0a48-484c-8269-f10a807fe6aan%40googlegroups.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CADcuegvoXQCZDCJhwZa9rfvJrfWWw6OfvMy9atpvpx2vggnJDA%40mail.gmail.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAK%3DHD%2BZ-bHkLApiKSKmSH_4gEDBKM-Oe6eTe2wh8Vm2%2Bc8SRZw%40mail.gmail.com.
