I think the conversion function is useful pedagogically to talk about the need to serialize, but having it just work might be expedient in other situations. I do not believe that they are actually serializable, but we could fairly easily make that change.
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > Kind of. If this is about Universe programming (so that students can send > messages back and forth), I have them write conversion functions: > > (define-struct hh (cakes henries)) > > (define (hh->lists hh) > (list (cakes->lists (hh-cakes hh)) (henries->lists (hh-henries hh)))) > > -- Matthias > > > > > On Nov 16, 2013, at 11:57 AM, n...@cs.tufts.edu (Norman Ramsey) wrote: > >> A structure is defined with `define-struct` in Intermediate Student Language. >> Is it serializable? That is, can it be written and then re-read >> successfully with `write` and `read`? If not, is there a way to make it so? >> (I have found the function `make-serialize-info` in the racket/serialize >> library, but the documentation relies on Racket concepts that I have not >> yet learned.) >> >> >> Norman >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
