From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Paths as sequences of path components Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:51:30 -0500 Message-ID: <878vn47w3x.fsf@netris.org> References: <1297784103-18322-1-git-send-email-janneke-list@xs4all.nl> <1297784103-18322-3-git-send-email-janneke-list@xs4all.nl> <87r58gzuoy.fsf@gnu.org> <87vcxsycds.fsf@gnu.org> <87wri7ru80.fsf@netris.org> <87zkn2stsf.fsf@gnu.org> <8762p1kwdg.fsf_-_@netris.org> <87hb1ulc2s.fsf@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322189579 17421 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2011 02:52:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 02:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 25 03:52:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RTluI-0000hY-OS for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:52:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42428 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTluI-0007VA-CO for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:52:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39642) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTluA-00073u-Fb for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTlu9-0000sM-6n for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:52:46 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:39492) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTlu8-0000sC-SL; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:52:45 -0500 Original-Received: from ip68-9-118-38.ri.ri.cox.net ([68.9.118.38] helo=yeeloong) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RTlu2-00084R-Vg; Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:52:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87hb1ulc2s.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:15:55 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 96.39.62.75 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:12932 Archived-At: Andy Wingo writes: > we miss your hack-energy in Guile :-) Thanks for the encouragement, and also for forgiving my frequently poor social skills :) Free time has been scarce in the last 8 months (thanks to my 8-month-old nephew) but I would indeed like to finally get to work on improving Guile's string handling. >> I really like the basic gist behind Noah's proposal, to allow programs >> to optionally represent paths (roughly) as sequences of path components. > > This sounds cool. Want to work on it? Before embarking on paths as sequences of path components, I would first like to figure out how best to handle posix byte strings. > Do you still have the same proposal regarding bytestrings? I've had second thoughts about my last proposal. I will outline my recent thoughts on this subject in another email, hopefully in the next few days. Mark