On 10 Sep 2009, at 8:25 am, Adrien Pied Piérard wrote: > 2009/9/10 Alaric Snell-Pym <[email protected]>: >> We could perhaps serialise them with some sort of syntax like this: >> #c<((x 1) (y 2) (z 3)) (lambda (a b c) (+ a b c x y z))> > > > This reminds me of the Tube [1] which basically reconstructs source > code during serialisation. It's a nice Ph.D. thesis.
Well, yeah, I wasn't seriously proposing we do this, just exploring why serialising closures is hard so there's a good excuse to have *some* objects as "non-printable", in order to explore whether this should apply to structures or not :-) Thanks for the reading material, though! ABS -- Alaric Snell-Pym Work: http://www.snell-systems.co.uk/ Play: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ Blog: http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/author/alaric/ _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
