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
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
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.
Hi David,
Ports in Guile can be used to write characters, or bytes, or both. In
particular, every port (including string ports, void ports, etc.) has an
“encoding”, which is actually only used for textual I/O.
Conversely, an R6RS port is either textual or binary, but not both.
IMO, one
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
Ports in Guile can be used to write characters, or bytes, or both. In
particular, every port (including string ports, void ports, etc.) has an
“encoding”, which is actually only used for textual I/O.
Conversely, an R6RS port is either textual or binary,
