Hi,
Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Finally, although we might in theory be able to accommodate all
> possible reading variants as configurable options to the default read,
> in practice (i) this would be a pain for anyone wanting a variant that
> hasn't yet been incorporated into Guile's official reader, because
> they'd have to argue for it and then wait until it filtered through to
> a release, and (ii) we'd still need to implement something to make it
> easy to confine the effect/scope of read options to particular files,
> because the common case is that particular files require particular
> read variants. Taking (i) and (ii), it seems a lot simpler just to
> allow the Guile developer to specify an alternative read procedure for
> a particular load operation.
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And `guile-reader' would happily come into the picture to help solve
(i), because it allows reader variants to be easily implemented (be it
in C or Scheme) and combined with the rest of a reader.
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-reader/
No more "pain", no need to endlessly argue and "wait until it filtered
through a release"!
:-)
Thanks,
Ludovic.
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