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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dumping arbitrary structures
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:30:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3u12ibawd.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454.219.65.38.220.1075155744.squirrel@www.ezrs.com>

farazs@yapost.com wrote:
>         I'm looking for something which can dump *arbitrary* guile
> structures to a byte(or scm_t_bits) array - so that they may be
> transmitted (send()) and recieved and reconstructed cleanly on the
> other end. It could also be used to save data structures to a file
> and restore them later on.

(with-output-to-string (lambda () (write object)))
That will work for built-in data types like lists, vectors, numbers,
strings, symbols, etc.  User-defined records and classes are a harder
problem.


paul


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  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-26 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-26 22:22 dumping arbitrary structures farazs
2004-01-26 22:30 ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2004-01-26 23:50   ` Andreas Rottmann
2004-01-28  1:55     ` Clinton Ebadi
2004-01-28  7:39     ` farazs
2004-01-28 13:18       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-01-28 22:47       ` Clinton Ebadi

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