Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Richard Stallman]

    However, I would argue that even in Emacs, string<->bytevector
    conversions should be strict by default,

What is a "bytevector"?  It doesn't appear in the Emacs Lisp
ref manual, so I suppose it is a concept from Scheme.
How would it relate into Emacs?  Maybe your suggestion is a good one.

    It doesn't matter how these raw bytes are encoded internally.  No matter
    what mechanism we use to accomplish it, propagating invalid byte
    sequences by default is bad security policy.

As a general matter, the policy that programs should not get upset
when they see invalid UTF-8 seems more secure than the policy that
programs should not propagate invalid UTF-8.  But, given the
situation, it isn't useful to debate that theoretical question.

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