Re: ice-9/and-let*.scm

[Jim Blandy]

Michael Livshin <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Michael Livshin <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Two, allow all Scheme symbols are module name components and map to
> > > > sensible filenames in a platform specific way.
> > > 
> > > the second option seems cleaner.  the porting work can be reduced by
> > > using a simplistic encoding that would map any non-letter-or-number
> > > character to a %<char-code>, a la the standard URL encoding.
> > > 
> > > would that work?
> > 
> > I think so.  I think it wouldn't be bad to actually use the standard
> > URL encoding.  Do we already have code for that somewhere?
> 
> I actually had the same idea prior to posting the above, but then I
> remembered that slashes in URLs don't get encoded.  or do they?

No, they don't.  We'd need to adapt the code to our purpose.  It
wouldn't be entirely "standard", but it would be similar enough that
people would see what was going on.