[Special Report] 3.6 is out, now what? :-)
Yoshiki Ohshima
Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Tue Oct 14 05:55:05 UTC 2003
Lex,
> Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
> > We could add a header line to a file. How do you want to make it look like?
> > Probably, a line like:
> > 'encoding: ''mac-roman'''!
> > or such?
>
> But for the fileout format in particular, this should surely be a
> message send.
I thought of this, too. But the problem is the forward
compatibility. A fileout from new version should be legal for the
older ones as long as the code doesn't use non-ASCII characters.
> I don't know who it should be sent to, unfortunately. It
> should eventually get sent to the TextFile that is doing the loading.
>
> Perhaps the simple:
>
> fileInStream encoding: 'mac-roman' !
>
>
> There's no real reason that fileouts shouln't have a few predefined
> variables.
Yes, it is somewhat like Emacs' mechanism.
-- Yoshiki
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