Hi! Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis:
> Just thinking aloud here -- Windows has this O_BINARY thing that > translates CRLF to LF when reading, and LF to CRLF when writing. It > seems to me to be a useless thing. We already have our own i/o > abstractions and should deal with CRLF vs LF in Scheme, I think: Yes. > The (newline) function can write CRLF > The ~% format directive should DTRT > read-line should DTRT IMO the correct abstraction here is transcoders à la R6RS. The problem is that scm_t_port doesn’t have any slot to specify the EOL style, but it would need one. > So, what do you think about always adding O_BINARY to files that Guile > opens? Yes, but only when there’s a per-port EOL style, since otherwise we’d just remove functionality, no? Ludo’.
