Jonas,

Thanks for stepping forward and publishing your work. From the short
glance I had at it already, your code seems very low-level (probably
for performance), but sound. The only thing that, compared to other
CSV libraries I've used, I miss somewhat is explicit support for
"dialects". While the developer can set the separator, quote and
newline chars herself, it would be nice if there were a number of pre-
made maps for commonly used CSV dialects, e.g. Excel, whose values can
just be passed to the read and write functions.

To give an example, Python's approach is quite simple yet effective.
Their use of class inheritance to define new dialects that are similar
to old ones would translate well to Clojure maps, by assoc'ing or
merge'ing the changes in.

http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html#csv-fmt-params

--Daniel

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