Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Mark H Weaver]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:15:26 -0400
>> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
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>>     > They don't HAVE to be treated the same.  We are talking about changes,
>>     > here.
>> 
>>     They will be very deep and invasive changes, because currently the
>>     encoding/decoding routines don't know the purpose of the stuff they
>>     are producing.
>> 
>> No, it's just a matter of setting some parameter to specify a particular
>> decision in decoding or encoding behavior.
>
> Specify, and then drag it all the way down the encoding/decoding
> machinery.

The strictness flag should conceptually be part of the encoding, and
thus associated with the I/O port.  This would obviate the need to
propagate it down through layers of code.

       Mark