Re: libnettle/libhogweed WIP

[Davis Herring]

>   There's no Lisp_Object AFAIK to represent a file. So for
>   BUFFER-OR-STRING what do I use to indicate a file?
>
>   "file:///the/path" ; a special string format: URL format?

Certainly not this one -- such a string could of course _be_ the data to 
be treated.

>   (file "/the/path") ; a nested list with a symbol?

I like this one best, I think.

>   (insert-file-contents-literally "/the/path") ; a form, called in a temp 
> buffer?

Certainly it's powerful, but it clashes with lexical binding, and it's 
not clear (to me) how it's superior to the caller simply creating the 
temporary buffer themselves.  (I seem to recall you were talking about 
protecting the data from Lisp inspection?  ...But evalling whatever Lisp 
inside the buffer that holds the data, however temporarily, would of 
course be quite a hole in such a scheme.)

Davis

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