From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Paths as sequences of path components Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:15:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87hb1ulc2s.fsf@pobox.com> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322088931 13727 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2011 22:55:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:55:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 23 23:55:25 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 1RTLit-0003iO-L3 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:55:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47270 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTLit-00037h-AJ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:55:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36330) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTLiq-00037c-47 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:55:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTLio-0007Rh-O2 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:55:20 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([74.115.168.62]:59958 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTLio-0007RA-LT; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:55:18 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1520E81C4; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:55:17 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=ozdZaMLdEBvGxpxK+WzJyIpC5iE=; b=rlvgaO 3IsKIh43WWe/0Ua1sZ9sOfkVyKNqFL6O/yPIUXVEMSzPw1JO8H8Do+psJp8lqJOH khhSrRqJM9xbAWBqfLicBIuRif5cn0LYfZzTGN5HB5bsm7pwAYH86YIudTKZq+j6 3Z5qGNLw0FWHFtcU6YVakzuGb4H04zyhlEF6I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Z18oRNRvZmiwjNWdmy93MqwcOd+wCSAl KIIw7Go34NjdXaOY4IQRp7IFCjK/y45dg5NJX6FCNzfOodIBRfTXEh+p+4FiwnTa NogKzQ57XItPMnACsa7q2SeU37cwKoKSc9o4swbADfgGJNv2JpUKLoCaN5d1Pamq 6cuV7OJ0RaY= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C39681C3; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:55:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from badger (unknown [95.214.56.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DCD7A81C2; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:55:15 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <8762p1kwdg.fsf_-_@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Mon, 23 May 2011 16:14:19 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 35A0603C-1626-11E1-90FA-65B1DE995924-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 74.115.168.62 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:12923 Archived-At: Hi Mark! Some wise man once said, "I want you back". Was it Justin Timberlake in the Backstreet Boys? Am I mixing up the boy-bands of yore? In any case, we miss your hack-energy in Guile :-) On Mon 23 May 2011 22:14, Mark H Weaver writes: > 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? Do you still have the same proposal regarding bytestrings? Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/