From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Neil Jerram" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Internal visibility Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:48:16 +0100 Message-ID: <49dd78620806011348w400a75c5xaea1af79f9b94949@mail.gmail.com> References: <87k5i5d6ei.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87lk2jhp0h.fsf@gnu.org> <87skwrce8y.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87iqxledzz.fsf@gnu.org> <87lk2futg0.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <87fxslr1jr.fsf_-_@gnu.org> <878wxv5t7q.fsf@gnu.org> <87mym6dv6t.fsf@gnu.org> <49dd78620806010100i6fe37521q249e973bd25d81c3@mail.gmail.com> <87prr1l8jf.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212353329 8104 80.91.229.12 (1 Jun 2008 20:48:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 20:48:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?=" Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 01 22:49:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K2uUK-0000WX-Cj for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:49:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50274 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2uTY-0004zU-Eb for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:48:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2uTT-0004zN-NF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K2uTS-0004zB-8i for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:48:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53947 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K2uTS-0004z8-35 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:48:18 -0400 Original-Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.182]:56042) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K2uTR-00055t-PV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:48:17 -0400 Original-Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m34so363969wag.10 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:48:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=WA3V1OCEV+M4GKey/S1UoDH0vecPGutXkQV8EzMtpuI=; b=QpQTRBpkwVyOBYznHctrGqd4sgWGegIIX/caycfShyODzigTzeWxqT4TgY7TvJqtgiI6hugcOCexPQSPgsdJHqKX4Cj1QwaR/LZmhk1ctL0O3GmjxYavwzlh2KfQCmiqOvVX9Hz6VTr+JqpX3CDa9KkUSyFXGJukyYVIEJTi6yo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LQDfyF4Xw/4wK4Lgqxvla/gIEgzbN0pJU3SNcOZOyh59w6VIJL1MASF/KyhMKcdtsvPtzYVCaYEPEDkaDsWfn+aahngKbnayhBsAh0yX+/n2C/bKRn+3Vs1rZXpENyhfpMltLgJbW3ld6UytNpsuUmb8gVUeP2zpvUBL5VjEXps= Original-Received: by 10.115.14.1 with SMTP id r1mr8800779wai.139.1212353296175; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:48:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.197.7 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Jun 2008 13:48:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87prr1l8jf.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:7295 Archived-At: 2008/6/1 Ludovic Court=E8s : > > It's just that it's convenient and equivalent to 1.6's `SCM_STRING_CHARS = ()', > so people have come to use it... According to Google's codesearch, > `scm_i_string_chars ()' is used by Mailutils, Lilypond, AutoGen, SND and > a few others. IMO that amounts to a strong case for making it an official API. I believe the argument against doing that is something to do with future multi- and variable-byte string encodings - but perhaps we can handle that as a transitional issue once those encodings are in place? Neil