Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Richard Stallman]

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    > 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.

Could you be more concrete about the problem you are talking about here?

    > It will be easy to specify one or the other, so why not make the default
    > be strict, except in the primitives that operate on files?

    Because I believe this will annoy users and cause a lot of
    complaining.

Would you please describe a concrete scenario in which this might
annoy users?

Assume that any operation which decodes text _for a user to see_
will specify flexible decoding.


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