Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org>: >> From: Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> >> The Linux kernel just doesn't care, and shouldn't. > > Guile is not an OS kernel. Guile is an environment for writing > applications. On the application level, you _should_ care, or else you > won't be able to manipulate file names in meaningful ways.
To me, a programming language is a medium of writing programs for an operating system. I don't think a programming language should "shield" me from the OS. Instead, it should make the whole gamut of the OS facilities available to me. >> I'm not saying bytevectors are elegant, but we should not replace >> them with wishful thinking. > > No need for wishful thinking. Study what Emacs does and do something > similar. Why don't you tell me already what emacs does? >> Guile 1.x's and Python 2.x's bytevector/string confusion was actually >> a very happy medium. Neither the OS nor the programming language >> placed any interpretation to the byte sequences. That was left to the >> application. > > And that is wrong. Applications cannot handle that, they need some > heavy help from the infrastructure. That can be managed through support libraries. Marko
