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, 05 Oct 2014 17:49:46 -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> <871tqneyvl.fsf@netris.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 1412545799 16017 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2014 21:49:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 21:49:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, eliz@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 05 23:49:54 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 1Xatge-0001w4-NJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 23:49:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48772 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xatge-0006Dd-DF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38296) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xatgb-0006DR-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:49:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xatga-0000YG-7u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:49:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xatga-0000YA-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:49:48 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XatgY-00062K-7y; Sun, 05 Oct 2014 17:49:46 -0400 In-reply-to: <871tqneyvl.fsf@netris.org> (message from Mark H Weaver on Sun, 05 Oct 2014 03:53:18 -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:174995 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. ]]] * I'm concerned that there are security implications to supporting the "raw byte" code points. I can expand on this more if you'd like. I'd like to know how it is that "raw bytes" have security implications. Are there programs that make assumptions about the contents of strings? That seems like bad design. -- 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.