From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Thierry Volpiatto' <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>,
'Stefan Monnier' <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: persistent lisp objects
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:11:55 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zl82qxk4.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E9DB2351D7C5404D9F320583D1CECBA0@us.oracle.com>
Drew Adams writes:
> print and read are no good for objects whose print form is not
> readable by the reader. That's the general problem (lack) in this
> regard.
Some objects (frames, for example) *cannot* have a readable print form
because they refer to objects that Emacs in principle cannot print
(GUI windows, in the case of frames). For objects that can but don't,
the right thing to do is to file a bug against `print' and `read', not
request that an obscure hack be sanctified.
Cf. the recent creation of a read'able print representation for hash
tables.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-08 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-29 8:50 persistent lisp objects Thierry Volpiatto
2009-10-01 8:14 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-10-07 16:53 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-07 22:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-07 22:10 ` Drew Adams
2009-10-08 5:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2009-10-25 10:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-10-25 10:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-10-25 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-27 20:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-10-02 20:55 MON KEY
2009-10-03 3:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-03 19:19 ` MON KEY
2009-10-03 20:13 ` Richard Stallman
2009-10-04 0:15 ` MON KEY
2009-10-04 21:03 ` Richard Stallman
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