> > [Are ISL structures made with define-struct serializable?]
>
> 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))))
It's not actually about Universe programming. It's about caching a
data structure that is expensive to produce and will be reused for
many queries.
I'm gathering from the responses that
- Structures created with define-struct are not automatically
serializable with `write`.
- There is not (yet) a consensus on whether making them so would be
a good idea.
- S-expressions are serializable, where an S-expression is one of:
+ number
+ symbol
+ string
+ (listof S-expression)
I'm happy enough to have my students convert their data structures to
S-expressions, then read and write those.
Norman
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