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On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 09:38:31AM -0600, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> I know many of us want to get away from "stringly typed" or "string
> substitution" type solutions, and that's for very good reason.  But if
> someone already has a config file that they have ready to go, that's
> good to support.  And many of our config writers might be lossy... so
> while we should prefer schemey, composable interfaces, letting users
> just dump in a block of text is pretty important for many of these, I
> think.

I think that having the whole system in Scheme is awesome! But for the
case of configuring software created elsewhere, I think it makes sense
to be able to do things the "other way".