Re: A tentative list of vtable functions

[Dan Sugalski]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

> How about
> 
> to_string *
> from_string *
> 
> as generalizations of formatted/pretty input/output and freeze/thaw
> (cf printf/Data::Dumper/Storable)?

Erm, I could see that, but freezing and printing are still different
operations, so I'm not sure it's a good idea to conflate the two.

                                        Dan