Re: The “binary-friendly” Latin-1

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi Andy!

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> On Wed 26 Jan 2011 19:31, Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> recv, send, etc are clearly bytevector routines.  But, if you want to keep
>> backward compatibility, you should have it handle both cases.
>>
>> IMHO, the idea of deprecating the use of strings is the wrong one.  Either
>> be bold and get rid of strings for 2.0, or let them be both bytevector
>> and string functions for the foreseeable future.
>>
>> If strings remain an option, there will have to be some mention of the
>> "binary-friendly" Latin-1 encoding.  ;-)
>
> I think recv and send should operate on bytevectors.
>
> I also think that if Guile is compiled with deprecated code enabled,
> strings should be supported, noting that the send message should be a
> latin-1 string, and that received bytes will be interpreted as latin-1
> characters.  If passed a string, these functions will issue deprecation
> warnings.  We change the documentation to speak of bytevectors and not
> strings.

I concur, I’ll do this.

Thanks,
Ludo’.