Re: libnettle/libhogweed WIP

[Stefan Monnier]

>> In my experience it's important for the coder to carefully choose which
>> coding-system should be used.  So if we want the functions to do
>> encoding internally, then I'd prefer we have a non-optional
>> coding-system argument.  "Automatically choose an appropriate
>> coding-system" encourages bugs.
> How is this different from write-region and its ilks?

Off the top of my head:
- it's new, so we get to avoid past errors
- it's not a command
- it's not limited to interaction with files


        Stefan