From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: The =?utf-8?b?4oCcYmluYXJ5LWZyaWVuZGx54oCd?= Latin-1 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:29:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87d3nfiy17.fsf@gnu.org> References: <140262.72997.qm@web37904.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296311376 20814 80.91.229.12 (29 Jan 2011 14:29:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:29:36 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 29 15:29:32 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjBnv-0007eU-29 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:29:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42308 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjBnu-0006xo-Hm for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:29:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=47197 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PjBnq-0006wt-E7 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:29:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjBnp-0000Qm-19 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:29:26 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:58658) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PjBno-0000QE-Rm for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:29:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PjBnj-0007ZW-IK for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:29:19 +0100 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:29:19 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:29:19 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 10 =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pluvi=F4se?= an 219 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s++jAAJtn49pLlvntgJm93766CI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:11399 Archived-At: Hi Andy! Andy Wingo writes: > On Wed 26 Jan 2011 19:31, Mike Gran 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’.