From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Needed: per-port reader options
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:52:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ehkyza6v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87sj9ixl1j.fsf@tines.lan
Hi,
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
> I recently tried to implement reader directives, e.g.:
>
> #!fold-case (from R7RS)
> #!no-fold-case (from R7RS)
> #!curly-infix (from SRFI-105)
>
> However, I ran into a rather serious problem. Guile's reader options
> are global to the entire process, but clearly these reader directives
> should affect only the port they are read from. So we need to support
> per-port reader options.
I think we should instead be able to instantiate new readers–i.e., have
a higher-order ‘make-reader’ procedure (that’s how Guile-Reader started,
actually.)
That, combined with the ‘current-reader’ fluid, should provide good
flexibility.
As an example,
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile-reader.git/tree/modules/system/reader/confinement.scm
provides reader settings that are confined for each module.
Also, I think ports should remain reader-oblivious. ‘read’ is
fundamentally at a higher level of abstraction, so I’d personally prefer
not to have ports fiddle with it.
WDYT?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-16 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-13 18:51 Needed: per-port reader options Mark H Weaver
2012-10-16 15:52 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2012-10-16 20:22 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-10-16 21:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-10-16 21:57 ` Noah Lavine
2012-10-16 22:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-10-17 3:34 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-10-18 16:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-10-18 17:48 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-10-19 2:12 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-10-21 21:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
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