Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
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> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 19:51:45 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> 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.

We are talking about 2 different meanings of "propagate".  I was
talking about the need for the code at all levels to know about this
bit and "handle" it, like we do now with the different kinds of
"source" and "destination" of the encoding/decoding process.