From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:22:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <54193A70.9020901@member.fsf.org> <87lhp6h4zb.fsf@panthera.terpri.org> <87k34qo4c1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <54257C22.2000806@yandex.ru> <83iokato6x.fsf@gnu.org> <87wq8pwjen.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <837g0ptnlj.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3yxwdr6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87tx3tmi3t.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <834mvttgsf.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhp5m99w.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9ztm5oa.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87d2ahm3nw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411946580 29688 80.91.229.3 (28 Sep 2014 23:23:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:23:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 29 01:22:55 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XYNnn-0008Ve-Ir for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 01:22:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33550 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYNnn-0003yQ-5X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:22:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYNnf-0003yJ-VV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYNnf-0004uC-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:22:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36157) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYNne-0004tt-TF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:22:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYNnY-0005Zo-Kz; Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:22:36 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Sat, 27 Sep 2014 13:23:10 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:174786 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] So if we can't make use of Guile's strings because they're not good enough, then we won't use them. Unfortunately, that would put a major crimp in interoperability between Emacs Lisp programs and Scheme programs. Can the Guile developers work on making Guile strings flexible enough that Emacs can use them? So that they can do the jobs Emacs Lisp strings do? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.