From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Thierry Volpiatto' <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: persistent lisp objects
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:10:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E9DB2351D7C5404D9F320583D1CECBA0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvd44yvp4w.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> > From what I understand, Thierry says that Emacs now has a general
> > serialization/deserialization feature, in the form of byte-compiling
> > to a file and then reading that file. I haven't tested it, but if
>
> I have no idea what he thinks as novel, but such functions have been
> available for ages. Called print and read.
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.
I assumed he was saying that byte-compiling now did something more than that, so
that objects whose print form is not readable are neverthless handled. I didn't
try it myself.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-07 22:10 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 [this message]
2009-10-08 5:11 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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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