From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: persistent lisp objects
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:05:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpr8bh5yd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbtn6a6t.fsf@tux.homenetwork> (Thierry Volpiatto's message of "Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:26:50 +0100")
>> I have no idea what he thinks as novel, but such functions have been
>> available for ages. Called print and read.
[...]
> That is surely not the best way to serialize objects, but that is better
> than nothing until somebody write something to save hash-table, lists,
> etc... in a data base.
Again, what's wrong with print&read?
That's what your eval-when-compile uses. All the eval-when-compile does
is to let the byte-compiler serialize an object into a .elc file.
If you're not limited to a .elc file, then it seems a lot simpler to
just use print&read directly.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-25 15:05 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
2009-10-25 10:33 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-10-25 10:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-10-25 15:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-10-27 20:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
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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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