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 23:36:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <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> <83wpafbyk6.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492659424 17604 195.159.176.226 (20 Apr 2017 03:37:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 03:37:04 +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 Thu Apr 20 05:36:58 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 1d12ts-0004P7-4l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 05:36:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51473 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d12tw-0002G9-EX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:37:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41410) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d12tL-0002Fz-0Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d12tI-0000ov-Dm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:36:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52588 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d12tI-0000oR-7C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 23:36:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d12t8-0003bE-MN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 05:36:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:kppY5AL/E/Qz0Hnnj/z2wihslFk= 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:214143 Archived-At: >> 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. > How is this different from write-region and its ilks? Off the top of my head: - it's new, so we get to avoid past errors - it's not a command - it's not limited to interaction with files Stefan