Scheme naming conventions

Greetings,

[This is really a Scheme question, rather than a specifically SISC one]

In a recent feature request, Matthias said

> There is a naming convention in Scheme that denotes
> "with" with "/" in procedure names, e.g. |call/cc| for
> |call-with-current-continuation|

This made me think: is there a list anywhere, canonical or otherwise,  
of Scheme naming conventions?  At various times, I've googled for the  
obvious things without turning up any that I don't already know.

I know of:

predicate?
mutator!
*global-parameter*
type-method (eg STRING-LENGTH)
convert-type->type
...and now '/' -> 'with'.

I think I've also seen %implementation-private%, but don't know how  
common that is.

Scsh uses '/' as a sort of sub-name notation, so that OPEN/APPEND is  
the append flag for the OPEN-FILE procedure, and BUFPOL/LINE (for  
example) indicates line buffering in port.  I suppose these _can_ be  
pronounced 'with', but it's a bit of a stretch.

The SISC manual mentions `By convention field accessors should be  
named with a leading colon (:) followed by the field name'.  That's  
specific to record types, yes?

I have the vaguely paranoid impression that there's some set of  
conventions known to Everyone Else, passed on by some sort of  
apostolic succession.  Can anyone put me out of my misery?

All the best,

Norman


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