Re: call-with-input-url

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Bruce Lewis wrote:
> I'd like to submit a patch to implement/document call-with-input-url.
> Would such a patch be accepted?

I don't know - what does it do?  Is it just a generalization of 
call-with-input-file to URLs?  I guess that would be useful to have.

If it's a relative URL, should it resolve resolve to the (base-uri)?

Would it make sense to support "auto-uri" i.e. allow absolute url or a 
filename for call-with-input-file, as recently changed for load?

> Should I put Scheme into
> kawa/lib/ports.scm as with call-with-input-string, or Java someplace
> else.  (call-with-input-file is in kawa/standard, but then it's
> standard.)

I've given up trying to be consistent about what is and isn't standard. 
 However, I am trying to place new code in gnu/*/* or kawa/lib rather 
than kawa/standard or kawa/lang.  call-with-input-file and 
call-with-output-file should probably be moved to ports.scm.

If it's a Scheme-specific file or trivial wrapper it is better in Scheme 
than in Java.  If it is non-trivial code that might be useful to re-use 
for other languages it might be better in Java - but doesn't have to be.
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