Re: [Texmacs-dev] Applied patches for version 1.0.1.15

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, David Allouche wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:37:38PM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> >
> > > :-( the current error reporting does not work with recent guile
> > > versions. And doing error reporting _right_ and _portably_ is not a
> > > trivial problem.
> >
> > Seems rather trivial: just check the guile version and
> > use the corresponding format for the error strings.
>
> I would not do it that way. That would require making this test for
> every error message. This would introduce too much redundancy.
>
> Essentially, I think the _right_ solution would be to use a "portable"
> format string syntax inside TeXmacs and use wrappers to the error
> functions which convert the format string to the correct syntax for
> this version of guile.
>
> Probably the format string syntax should be srfi-28.
>   http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-28/srfi-28.html

That is OK with me too.