Re: Improving the API for read options

2012-11-10 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> One problem I have with the existing API has to do with its treatment of >> square brackets. There are multiple things that one might want to do >> with square brackets, but since 'square-brackets' is a boolean option, > > For

Re: Improving the API for read options

2012-11-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >>> I've been avoiding adding a public API for this, because I feel that the >>> current 'read-options' API is poorly-designed and I'd rather take the >>> opportunity to come up with a clean design. >> >> What about just mapping the

Improving the API for read options

2012-11-05 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ludovic, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> I've been avoiding adding a public API for this, because I feel that the >> current 'read-options' API is poorly-designed and I'd rather take the >> opportunity to come up with a clean design. > > What about just mapping the existing ‘read-opti