Hi Mike, On Wed 27 May 2009 00:26, Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> writes:
> If one can't depend on the order of evaluation, the the source encoding > has to become a pragma that is preprocessed. One can depend on the order of evaluation, but not of the order of reading and evaluation. > The reader could probably preprocess the file looking for where > the text "coding: XXXXX" appears within a comment in the top dozen > lines of a source code file. Or perhaps a line that is explicitly > ";;;; #pragma coding: XXXXX" in the top few lines of a file. This sounds almost sane to me. I think python has a standard for this: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ This is complicated in Guile by #!. A reasonable thing would be to have the reader have a bit on whether it actually saw an expression yet or not. If not, "^;+ [^\n]*coding: ..." would set the file's encoding. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/
