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26.1 Arguments naming conventions

In the following procedure specifications:

cs

Is a character set.

str

Is a string.

char

Is a character.

range

Is a pair of characters interpreted as double–closed range of characters, the car being the lower–limit and the cdr being the upper–limit.

char-list

Is a list of characters.

pred

Is a unary character predicate procedure, returning a boolean value when applied to a character.

obj

May be any value at all.

A parameter followed by ... means zero–or–more elements.

Unless otherwise noted in the specification of a procedure, procedures always return character sets that are distinct from the parameter character sets.