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From: Thamer Al-Harbash <tmh@whitefang.com>
Subject: Re: records as s-expressions
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:40:30 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0310160030340.3176@helena.whitefang.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87llrxcan4.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Marius Vollmer wrote:

Thanks Rob and Marius for your earlier comments.

> Depends on your implementation...

I planned the way I want to implement it today and would like to
know if there are any objections to my thoughts below.

> I see two choices: follow Common Lisp and use #S(<type> ...), or
> follow SRFI-10 and use something like #,(record <type> ...).  I don't
> think there is any SRFI that specifies a concrete read syntax for
> records.
>
> We already use #s for uniform arrays, but overwrite it when (srfi
> srfi-4) is loaded...  #S is free, tho.

Would it be reasonable to just use (read-hash-extend) to hook
into the existing reader, and as well as modify existing
boot-9.scm code cause records to (display) as #S(...)?

If I went with the SRFI-10 solution I'd be implementing this as a
(record-serialize) (record-unserialize) which seem a bit less
Schemeish to me.

If there's no objections to this I should be able to write it
Real Soon Now with minimal hassle.

-- 
Thamer Al-Harbash
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-16  4:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-18  2:07 records as s-expressions Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-10-07 15:47 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-10-08  4:05   ` Rob Browning
2003-10-16  4:40   ` Thamer Al-Harbash [this message]
2003-10-16 19:43     ` Marius Vollmer
2003-10-16 19:59       ` Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-10-16 20:14         ` Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-10-16 20:48         ` Marius Vollmer
2003-10-16 21:40           ` Paul Jarc
2003-11-13  0:08             ` Marius Vollmer
2003-10-16 21:09         ` Neil Jerram
2003-10-16 21:56           ` Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-10-16 21:51     ` Rob Browning
2003-10-17  6:43       ` Neil Jerram

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