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Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg
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Robin Lee Powell |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:01:50 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) |
Replying to very old mail. :)
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:25:54PM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Following up on trac ticket #258:
>
> http://trac.callcc.org/ticket/258
Which is down right now, unfortunately.
> I'm considering changing the utf8 egg to no longer use syntax-case
> modules, so that it would work like the numbers egg.
>
> The way this would work is that, naturally, if you wanted to use
> utf8 semantics you'd just (use utf8), this time with no need for
> syntax-case and nothing to import.
>
> External modules, by default, would integrate standard string
> procedures and not be affected. However, if you wanted to make an
> extension optionally work with utf8 semantics you could compile it
> with
>
> (declare (not usual-integrations))
>
> or alternately
>
> (declare (not usual-integrations string-ref string-set! ...))
>
> for all the utf8-specific string procedures.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I *really* don't like the idea of
having to manage my own personal versions of spiffy and all of its
dependencies just to get utf8 support. That seems really
sub-optimal.
-Robin
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- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg,
Robin Lee Powell <=
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Alex Shinn, 2008/03/11
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Kon Lovett, 2008/03/11
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, John Cowan, 2008/03/11
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Felix Winkelmann, 2008/03/12
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Robin Lee Powell, 2008/03/13
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Alex Shinn, 2008/03/14
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, John Cowan, 2008/03/14
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Alex Shinn, 2008/03/14
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, John Cowan, 2008/03/15
- Re: [Chicken-users] ditching syntax-case modules for the utf8 egg, Alex Shinn, 2008/03/15