On 17 Dec 2002, Marc Feeley <xxxxxx@IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
> I much prefer building the functionality into the write (and read)
> procedure, and having a parameter object (as in make-parameter of
> Chez, PLT, etc) that can turn these features on/off.  For example,
> instead of
>
>   (write-showing-shared X)
>
> you would write
>
>   (parameterize ((write-shared #t))   ; write-shared is a parameter object
>     (write X))

Agreed. Only thing missing so far: a SRFI for parameterize ...