GNU bug report logs - #11198
serializing structs (prefabs)

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Message #53 received at 11198 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 11198 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, guile-devel <guile-devel <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#11198: prefab structs in guile
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:06:10 +0200

On Thu 05 Jul 2012 23:55, ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com> skribis:
>
>>   Since the expression reader can generate prefab instances, they are
>>   useful when convenient serialization is more important than
>>   abstraction. Opaque and transparent structures also can be serialized,
>>   however, if they are defined with define-serializable-struct as
>>   described in Datatypes and Serialization.
>
> So I’d be in the ‘define-serializable-struct’ camp, so to speak.

To be clear: in Racket, serializable structs are not readable.  That's
the whole point of prefab structs: a struct that is readable.

Andy
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