Re: Reading files as byte array

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

> > > Would it be considered okay if we included a scheme function to read a
> > > binary file to a byte array?
> > GUILE already supports this out of the box. Have you seen
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Binary-I_002fO.html
> >
> > ?
> Yes, of course GUILE supports this. But the problem is that this does not go
> through Lilypond’s path handling. So I really do not think this would be a
> good thing to use (of course one can use that internally, but I’m talking
> about a Lilypond friendly interface).

Just from comparing those statements: Would it be reasonable (and maybe 
generally useful) to make global_path.find (used in gulp_file_to_string, 
lily-guile.cc) available at scheme level?

Lukas