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define-library-alias Lassi Kortela (26 May 2020 13:34 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Shiro Kawai (27 May 2020 00:08 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Jim Rees (23 Sep 2020 02:07 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Jim Rees (23 Sep 2020 02:08 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (23 Sep 2020 06:02 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Jim Rees (23 Sep 2020 12:52 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (23 Sep 2020 12:58 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias John Cowan (23 Sep 2020 21:45 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (24 Sep 2020 05:53 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias John Cowan (25 Sep 2020 21:27 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (26 Sep 2020 07:44 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Jim Rees (26 Sep 2020 21:11 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (26 Sep 2020 21:23 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Jim Rees (27 Sep 2020 01:44 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias John Cowan (27 Sep 2020 17:49 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Arthur A. Gleckler (27 Sep 2020 18:16 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (29 Sep 2020 16:13 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (30 Sep 2020 07:08 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (29 Sep 2020 16:00 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Jim Rees (26 Sep 2020 01:05 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (26 Sep 2020 07:49 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Alex Shinn (27 May 2020 00:35 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Shiro Kawai (27 May 2020 01:30 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Alex Shinn (27 May 2020 03:26 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Shiro Kawai (27 May 2020 04:09 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Lassi Kortela (27 May 2020 07:27 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (27 May 2020 07:53 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Lassi Kortela (27 May 2020 07:57 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (27 May 2020 08:05 UTC)
SCHEME_PATH and library lookup metadata files Lassi Kortela (27 May 2020 08:15 UTC)
Re: SCHEME_PATH and library lookup metadata files Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (27 May 2020 08:24 UTC)
Re: SCHEME_PATH and library lookup metadata files Lassi Kortela (27 May 2020 09:04 UTC)
Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Lassi Kortela (27 May 2020 09:14 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (27 May 2020 09:21 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Lassi Kortela (27 May 2020 09:51 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (27 May 2020 10:21 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Per Bothner (27 May 2020 14:42 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files John Cowan (27 May 2020 17:46 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (27 May 2020 20:16 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Lassi Kortela (29 May 2020 16:03 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (29 May 2020 17:03 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Lassi Kortela (29 May 2020 17:09 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (29 May 2020 17:52 UTC)
Data vs metadata distinction Lassi Kortela (29 May 2020 17:59 UTC)
Re: Data vs metadata distinction Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (02 Jun 2020 09:43 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files John Cowan (29 May 2020 17:15 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Lassi Kortela (29 May 2020 17:26 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Lassi Kortela (29 May 2020 17:41 UTC)
Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files John Cowan (29 May 2020 18:04 UTC)
Re: SCHEME_PATH and library lookup metadata files Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (27 May 2020 09:26 UTC)
Scheme filename extensions Lassi Kortela (27 May 2020 09:40 UTC)
Re: Scheme filename extensions Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (27 May 2020 09:49 UTC)
Re: Scheme filename extensions Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (27 May 2020 09:51 UTC)
Re: Scheme filename extensions Lassi Kortela (27 May 2020 10:21 UTC)
Re: Scheme filename extensions Alex Shinn (27 May 2020 09:55 UTC)
Re: Scheme filename extensions Lassi Kortela (27 May 2020 10:30 UTC)
Library lookup metadata file Lassi Kortela (27 May 2020 10:32 UTC)
Re: Scheme filename extensions John Cowan (28 May 2020 17:30 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Alex Shinn (04 Jun 2020 14:57 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (04 Jun 2020 15:31 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Feeley (04 Jun 2020 15:37 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Lassi Kortela (04 Jun 2020 15:39 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (21 Sep 2020 06:13 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Lassi Kortela (22 Sep 2020 16:05 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (22 Sep 2020 16:13 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Lassi Kortela (22 Sep 2020 16:41 UTC)
Re: define-library-alias Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (22 Sep 2020 17:13 UTC)

Re: Reader flags to indicate different kinds of files Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen 27 May 2020 10:20 UTC

Am Mi., 27. Mai 2020 um 11:51 Uhr schrieb Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io>:
>
> > I'd say keep separate things separate. Reader flags should affect how
> > things are read by `read' procedure (and the Scheme reader) and should
> > not be (mis)used for anything else. A reader flag for different Scheme
> > dialects is fine as long as it switches the reader into the
> > appropriate mode, but the flag itself should not communicate any
> > meaning of the underlying Scheme data.
>
> This is a good principle, but it may have been been broken already.
> `#!r6rs` switches to R6RS read syntax, but does it also switch to R6RS
> definitions and language semantics?

It just ensures that R6RS lexical and datum syntax is used, so this is
a perfectly legitimate use of a reader flag. (In Racket, it is
different, but this is a different language.)

> If we don't use `#!` to identify the purpose of a file we should have
> some other way to do so. The proposed `(declare-file ...)` as the first
> S-expression in a file would do that, but it's not without its problems
> as well. Since we are retrofitting these things into Scheme, there is no
> 100% perfect solution.

The identification of the purpose of a file (its "metadata") does not
necessarily have to be based on file contents.

> This is reasonable. You still can't reliably differentiate a data file
> meant to be read in as quoted S-expressions (where the first such
> S-expression happens to be a `(define-library ...)` form) from files
> meant to be evaluated. But maybe it's not that important.

You can't for general data files; but specific data file formats will
most likely start with a specific form, which is disjoint to
define-library.