From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: libnettle/libhogweed WIP Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:53:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83a89gq3us.fsf@gnu.org> <87bmtjiv0w.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <83o9xjn06c.fsf@gnu.org> <87shmeb5ln.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <83y3w5z1ez.fsf@gnu.org> <87lgr6yakj.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wpamww9k.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8337daggnj.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1cdwxt6.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83tw5pg1q3.fsf@gnu.org> <87zifhulc2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83h91og80k.fsf@gnu.org> <87pogbuhoe.fsf@lifelogs.com> <834lxndmd9.fsf@gnu.org> <87efwrug6z.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83bmrscvdb.fsf@gnu.org> <871ssos8jp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83y3uwb995.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492631767 13031 195.159.176.226 (19 Apr 2017 19:56:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 19:56:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 19 21:56:03 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d0vhl-00035I-9F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:55:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0vhp-0003va-EX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:56:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55555) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0vh5-0003VG-Re for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0vh2-0006Cm-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:55:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=49492 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d0vh2-0006Bx-KH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d0vgu-0001zq-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:55:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:3HCJzYET2MsnyU1I7FBJm47ovC0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214139 Archived-At: > We could simply use choose_write_coding_system instead, we already use > it for write-region, which can write either buffer text or a string. > Then all the complexity that bothers you will go away, and be no more > visible than it is when you call write-region. In my experience it's important for the coder to carefully choose which coding-system should be used. So if we want the functions to do encoding internally, then I'd prefer we have a non-optional coding-system argument. "Automatically choose an appropriate coding-system" encourages bugs. Stefan