[e-lang] Hyper-printing

[Mark S. Miller]

Kevin Reid wrote:
> What guarantees would the [HypertextWriter] guard provide over no guard at all?

None actually. I like having the name for explicitness and contrast, but it 
may as well by a synonym for "any".


>> I believe all this can be done without any changes to the existing  
>> E system.
> 
> Yes, but to make it useful the system-provided objects need to use  
> the HTW guard, or no guard, which would be a change.

Yes. In particular, all transparent record-like objects should use the 
:HypertextWriter guard.


> Also, for good documentation of what the guards' significance is, the  
> guards might need better names. TextWriter hasn't seemed a very good  
> name to me, though HypertextWriter is an interesting extension that  
> seems to make it make more sense in that context.

Yes, I like the pairing. But better suggestions would be great.

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     Cheers,
     --MarkM