From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Adding to the end of the load path Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:04:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87k3tpkyeg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sj8o20v0.fsf@googlemail.com> <87liecucrz.fsf@delenn.home.rotty.xx.vu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352840687 31997 80.91.229.3 (13 Nov 2012 21:04:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:04:47 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 13 22:04:57 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TYNfF-0008AJ-8C for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:04:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55823 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TYNf5-0003Io-IB for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51263) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TYNf1-0003IX-3y for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:04:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TYNey-0003SU-2T for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:04:43 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TYNex-0003S9-S0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:04:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TYNez-00081v-NT for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:04:41 +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 ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:04:41 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:04:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 23 Brumaire an 221 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= 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/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:x2SiXhDoDle0A+sy3npdz9NFwvk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:15166 Archived-At: Hi! Sorry for the delay. Andreas Rottmann skribis: > Ian Price writes: [...] >> Andreas Rottmann suggested something similar in February[1]. >> > I've attached a patch implementing that suggestion, FWIW. > >> I don't have any concrete proposals better than what Andreas has >> suggested, but I felt I should make this post to the list, lest Mark and >> I forget. >> > > [...] > >> 1. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2012-02/msg00038.html Like Mark, I’m not comfortable with changing the meaning of the empty string in the load path, and the behavior of ‘%parse-path’. I pretty much like Mark’s suggestion of using ‘...’ as a special marker, even though that’s a valid file name. How would that work for you? Thanks, Ludo’.