From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Do not scan for coding declarations in open-file
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:04:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ud1qfuw.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2wlgoxg.fsf@tines.lan> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:58:19 -0500")
On Thu 31 Jan 2013 19:58, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>> My instinct is that we should not merge this patch without including a
>> way to enable the coding sniff; which seems to mean adding keywords or
>> somehow extending the arguments of:
>>
>> open-file
>> with-input-from-file
>> with-output-to-file
>> call-with-output-file
>> call-with-input-file
>> open-input-file
>
> I'd be glad to do this. I've long wanted these to accept keyword
> arguments for encoding and binary mode. We could also have a keyword to
> ask Guile to guess the encoding. This could be used to simplify the
> code used in 'compile-file' etc.
>
> We could also add a fluid to specify whether 'open-file' should try to
> guess the encoding, if that helps.
>
> What do you think?
Sounds great to me :)
I would add the parameter only if you think it makes sense as an
interface going forward -- i.e. I wouldn't add it if it's only useful
for the rest of the life of the 2.0.x series.
Cheers,
Andy
--
http://wingolog.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-31 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-13 18:25 Scanning for coding declarations in all files (not just source) Mark H Weaver
2013-01-13 19:51 ` Mike Gran
2013-01-15 9:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-22 11:38 ` Andy Wingo
2013-01-31 5:06 ` [PATCH] Do not scan for coding declarations in open-file Mark H Weaver
2013-01-31 10:00 ` Andy Wingo
2013-01-31 18:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-01-31 20:04 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2013-01-31 22:00 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-31 22:19 ` Noah Lavine
2013-01-31 21:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
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