Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > we miss your hack-energy in Guile :-)
Thanks for the encouragement, and also for forgiving my frequently poor social skills :) Free time has been scarce in the last 8 months (thanks to my 8-month-old nephew) but I would indeed like to finally get to work on improving Guile's string handling. >> I really like the basic gist behind Noah's proposal, to allow programs >> to optionally represent paths (roughly) as sequences of path components. > > This sounds cool. Want to work on it? Before embarking on paths as sequences of path components, I would first like to figure out how best to handle posix byte strings. > Do you still have the same proposal regarding bytestrings? I've had second thoughts about my last proposal. I will outline my recent thoughts on this subject in another email, hopefully in the next few days. Mark