From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: [d.love@dl.ac.uk: dynamic loading of native code modules] Date: 16 Apr 2002 21:24:52 +0100 Sender: guile-user-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <874rifqeo8.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <873cxxkvj8.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018989244 2115 127.0.0.1 (16 Apr 2002 20:34:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:34:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rob Browning , ttn@glug.org, guile-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16xZeO-0000Y0-00 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:34:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xZap-0007fh-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.21] helo=s1.uklinux.net) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16xZZL-0007Z6-00; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 16:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (IDENT:root@ppp-6a-14.3com.telinco.net [212.159.138.14]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3GKSg700726; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:28:43 +0100 Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net.ossau.uklinux.net (neil@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net [192.168.1.3]) by portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA01992; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:29:16 +0100 Original-To: Marius Vollmer Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Errors-To: guile-user-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:194 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:194 >>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer writes: Marius> Neil Jerram writes: >> Well, I agree with all the examples you give here, but what about the >> following? >> >> - dropped support for multibyte strings [unless I'm misunderstanding >> the old mailing lists, Guile used to have these !] Marius> Yes, we had them, but nobody was really supporting them in Marius> C code. Multi-byte strings were a distinct type from Marius> uni-byte strings, but almost everybody just wrote code to Marius> deal with uni-byte strings. But only _almost_ everybody? (OK, I think that's enough devil's advocate from me on this general argument. In fact I'm as much in favour of simplifying and cleaning up the core as everyone else, and I realize that sometimes we have to compromise compatibility in order to move forward. Let's just be as considerate as we can in the process.) Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user