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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org, Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Subject: Re: records as s-expressions
Date: 16 Oct 2003 22:09:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3brsg7uup.fsf@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0310161546380.11955@helena.whitefang.com>

>>>>> "Thamer" == Thamer Al-Harbash <tmh@whitefang.com> writes:

    Thamer> The simple solution is to store type information as a symbol so
    Thamer> this distinction can be made:

    Thamer> #<foobar foo: type-string: 1 bar: type-string: 2>

This won't work.  (Or, more precisely, to make it work would be
arbitrarily complex.)  Consider, for example, if the arg is a list of
<strings or integers>, or a list of lists of <strings or integers>,
and so on.  Type must be implicit in the printed form.

        Neil




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-16 21:09 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
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 [this message]
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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