Guide: PLT Scheme

1`` | Welcome to PLT Scheme
2`` | Scheme Essentials
3`` | Built-In Datatypes
4`` | Expressions and Definitions
5`` | Programmer-Defined Datatypes
6`` | Modules
7`` | Contracts
8`` | Input and Output
9`` | Regular Expressions
10`` | Exceptions and Control
11`` | Iterations and Comprehensions
12`` | Pattern Matching
13`` | Classes and Objects
14`` | Units (Components)
15`` | Reflection and Dynamic Evaluation
16`` | Macros
17`` | Performance
18`` | Running and Creating Executables
19`` | Compilation and Configuration
20`` | More Libraries
| Bibliography
| Index

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### 8`` Input and Output

A Scheme port represents an input or output stream, such as a file, a terminal, a TCP connection, or an in-memory string. More specifically, an input port represents a stream from which a program can read data, and an output port represents a stream for writing data.

8.1 Varieties of Ports
8.2 Default Ports
8.3 Reading and Writing Scheme Data
8.4 Datatypes and Serialization
8.5 Bytes, Characters, and Encodings
8.6 I/O Patterns

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