---- Krister Svanlund <adsumm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Shouldn't the function return a string representing the object.rather than > the object itself, even for a string. It should be up to your application > to handle if it's a string imho. > On Jul 3, 2012 2:42 PM, "Nala Ginrut" <nalagin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hi guys! > > I realized that our object->string will do some unnecessary works for > > a string object. > > --------------code-------------- > > (object->string "\n") > > ==> "\\n" > > ---------------end-------------- > > > > It's illogical! I get several errors when I'm reading xml files. It > > generates too many "\\" that I must delete them with redundant > > operations. > > I believe we should return the object directly when it's a string.
Object->string takes an optional "printer" argument. The default is write, but you can also use display. scheme@(guile-user)> (help object->string) `object->string' is a procedure in the (guile) module. -- Scheme Procedure: object->string obj [printer] Return a Scheme string obtained by printing OBJ. Printing function can be specified by the optional second argument PRINTER (default: `write'). scheme@(guile-user)> (object->string "\n") $1 = "\"\\n\"" scheme@(guile-user)> (object->string "\n" display) $2 = "\n" -Dale