Re: [Audacity-nyquist] *default-separator*

[Leland <le...@au...>]

Roger Dannenberg wrote:
> I've been thinking it would be fairly simple to either add a primitive 
> such as (GET-FILE-SEPARATOR) in the same way that there is a 
> (BIGENDIANP) primitive. Or maybe it should be (GET-OS-TYPE) since there 
> might be other OS dependencies. In general, Nyquist and Audacity have 
> taught me how difficult it is to write portable code, how many solutions 
> there are to the problems, and how every solution seems to create new ones.
> 
> I didn't understand this:
> 
>  > Would it be better if the Nyquist interface provided this variable 
> since it
>  > knows what the separator should be?
> 
I meant the interface between Audacity and Nyquist...thought it could 
just define *file-separator* itself, though I would have preferred one 
of your primitives above.