Re: Separate textual/binary ports vs. mixed ports

Hey, I think if you only use them seperate there's a clearer distinction. If you have it mixed you can do some, say hacking, where you see it works but you can't see anywhere what you're exactly doing, most of it is hidden in the guile implementation, which interprets

Re: Separate textual/binary ports vs. mixed ports

I agree that separate binary and textual ports are cleaner, but what about using a port to deal with a mixed binary/textual protocol, like HTTP? I think the cleanest way to deal with that would be to have a port where you first read characters and then read binary data. That doesn't directly

Re: Separate textual/binary ports vs. mixed ports

Hi, Daniel Krueger keen...@googlemail.com skribis: If you have it mixed you can do some, say hacking, where you see it works but you can't see anywhere what you're exactly doing, most of it is hidden in the guile implementation, which interprets %default-port-conversion-strategy and gives

Re: Separate textual/binary ports vs. mixed ports

Hi! Noah Lavine noah.b.lav...@gmail.com skribis: I agree that separate binary and textual ports are cleaner, but what about using a port to deal with a mixed binary/textual protocol, like HTTP? I think the cleanest way to deal with that would be to have a port where you first read characters

Separate textual/binary ports vs. mixed ports

Hi, Daniel Krueger keen...@googlemail.com skribis: In the first place I agree that ports should be seperated and not mixed textual/binary Why? (I understand how this would work in terms of APIs co., I’m just unsure what the rationale is.) Thanks, Ludo’.