Re: Needed: per-port reader options

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Noah,

Noah Lavine <address@hidden> skribis:

> I might not understand this correctly, but aren't the reader flags
> only supposed to affect the specific file they're reading from? That's
> why we need a different set of reader options for each port. Of
> course, there could be one global reader that has a
> port-to-reader-options mapping, but that's a lot like a port-to-reader
> mapping.
>
> I think what you're suggesting is making a new reader for each input
> file, letting that reader set its flags based on directives, and then
> abandoning that reader when the file is read. Is that right?

Exactly.  That’s what ‘load-in-vicinity’ supports, for instance.

Ludo’.