Hi! Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis:
> SRFI-6 (string ports) says nothing about port encodings, and yet > portable code written for SRFI-6 will fail on Guile 2.0 unless the > string is constrained to whatever the default port encoding happens to > be. This is not just a theoretical issue; it has caused trouble in > practice, e.g.: > > http://bugs.gnu.org/11197 Hey, there’s a patch for SRFI-6 there. Could we resume the discussion in that bug? Guile ports are mixed textual/binary ports. Whether this or separate binary/textual ports as in R6 is best is an interesting question, but as you note, we cannot really change that currently. Thanks, Ludo’.
