On 02/08/2015 19:12, Konstantin Weitz wrote:
I'm trying to write a distributed racket program using [places][0]. From my
current understanding, this means that I have to send data to each place over a
channel using the `place-channel-put` function, which can send any value
accepted by `place-message-allowed?`.
I would like to send closures over a channel, unfortunately, closures are not
accepted by `place-message-allowed?`. Is there any way to serialize a closure
into a value accepted by a channel, and then deserialize it on the other side
of the channel?
The closures that I'm trying to send are side-effect free. The closures are
defined using `lambda`.
[0]: http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/places.html
Perhaps /quote/ and /eval/ would do the job? That is the usual way to
treat Scheme code as data and data as Scheme code. But I don't know if
there isn't a better way for already defined closures. You'll probably
need to /quote/ the lambda form to get the data graph of the code before
sending it to the other place to evaluate it. But then you're not
sending the closure but only its form and binding of variables will take
place in the other /place/.
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