On Wed 26 Mar 2014 04:19, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> writes:
>
> It occurs to me that one possibility would be to allow some of these
> parameters to effectively mirror the value of some other parameter.

> One way to implement this would be to make the corresponding fluid be a
> thunk that returns a port, instead of the port itself.  The converter
> could accept either a port or a parameter, and convert each of these to
> a suitable thunk.  Finally, we'd make custom 'current-warning-port' and
> 'current-error-port' procedures that would handling calling the thunk.

This would mean that you couldn't use current-warning-port as a
parameter and a procedure.

I think this complexity argument is sufficient to argue against having
more current-foo-ports :)

Anyd
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