Re: read'ing/write'ing strings, and escape sequences

[Marius Vollmer]

"Jacques A. Vidrine" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:13:04AM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> > "Jacques A. Vidrine" <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > This is actually two tightly coupled proposals.
> > 
> > Wouldn't this make a nice SRFI?
> 
> Perhaps, after some  discussion about which strategy  that I mentioned
> is appropriate.   My understanding  is that  SRFIs should  be complete
> strategies for  implementation, rather than for  discussion. I may not
> have outlined the options clearly enough to generate discussion.  I'll
> re-cap them here:
> 
>   . Make the described behavior [1] the default

This makes the most sense to me.  (Or rather, not make it the
`default', make it the only option, with no way to turn it off.)  If
we later find that it causes interoperability problems, we can then
add ways to work around them.