From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Gian Uberto Lauri" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:45:19 +0200 Message-ID: <22052.40847.247625.857253@mail.eng.it> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <87oag4jk74.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2qrki45.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8737xf9je9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87pp0fm0j3.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3kusx8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhb26eb9.fsf@gnu.org> <876126key3.fsf@gnu.org> <83fv1a6bfu.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1weo7u9.fsf@gnu.org> <83zizi3qr0.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhb1n81y.fsf@gnu.org> <83si594wt3.fsf@gnu.org> <87io64iigs.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3kso1gr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wpuks5ek.fsf@T420.taylan> <83vba4i1z3.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Gian Uberto Lauri NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445240739 24034 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2015 07:45:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 07:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "John Wiegley" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 19 09:45:33 2015 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 1Zo58O-0004EI-9a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:45:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37037 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zo58N-0002Pg-NH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:45:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34140) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zo58K-0002PE-52 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zo58G-0007Pw-4W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:45:28 -0400 Original-Received: from relay2.eng.it ([91.109.60.39]:49619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zo58F-0007Pl-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eng.it (fw.cup2000.it [195.62.189.254]) by relay2.eng.it (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CFD8DE0A39; Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:45:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by eng.it (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:45:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.1 under 24.4.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-echelon-food: Exon Shell Center for Disease Control Exxon Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia DynCorp Reflection PRIME EG&G H&K Power lines Reno IRS CCC National laboratory nitrate X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 91.109.60.39 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:192041 Archived-At: John Wiegley writes: > >>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > > One of the major lessons Emacs development learned since Emacs > > 20.1 is that raw bytes happen as part of text (a.k.a. "strings"), > > and therefore there's a need to support a mixture of these two in > > the same buffer/string. I think that's something Guile should > > support as well, as that will make it a more powerful and > > flexible extension language, able to deal with a wider range of > > real-life situations. >=20 > I'd like to second Eli's recommendation. In real life, encoding and > decoding of bytes to and from characters (codepoints) is never a > simple problem. We do need good flexibility here. My very humble opinion is that it Guile should acquire such a string type it could gain a big edge over more used programming languages. --=20 /\ =5F=5F=5F Ubuntu: anci= ent /=5F=5F=5F/\=5F|=5F|\=5F|=5F=5F|=5F=5F=5FGian Uberto Lauri=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= African word //--\| | \| | Integralista GNUslamico meaning "I can \/ coltivatore diretto di software not install gi=E0 sistemista a tempo (altrui) perso... Debian" Warning: gnome-config-daemon considered more dangerous than GOTO