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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:23:20 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] rc's shortcomings (new subject line)
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> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:39:06 EDT erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>  wrote:
> > > The feature I want is the ability to pass not just character
> > > values in environment or pipes but arbitrary Scheme objects.
> > > But that requires changes at the OS level (or mapping them
> > > to/from strings, which is a waste if both sides can handle
> > > structured objects).
> >
> > !?  the ability to pass typed records around is an idea that was
> > tarred, feathered, drawn and quartered by unix.  files, and therefore
> > streams, have no type.  they are byte streams.
>
> I was not talking about "records" but s-expressions.  "json"
> is kind of sort of the same thing. Without a generally useful
> and simple such mechanism, people end up devising their own.
> The 9p format for instance. And go has typed channels.

it sounds like you're saying 9p isn't useful.  .... i must be reading
your post incorrectly.

- erik