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bug#11198: prefab structs in guile


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#11198: prefab structs in guile
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:55:26 +0200
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Hi,

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

>   Since the expression reader can generate prefab instances, they are
>   useful when convenient serialization is more important than
>   abstraction. Opaque and transparent structures also can be serialized,
>   however, if they are defined with define-serializable-struct as
>   described in Datatypes and Serialization.

So I’d be in the ‘define-serializable-struct’ camp, so to speak.

Prefabs raise an number of interesting issues.  For instance, what’s the
meaning of #s(sprout bean #f 17) in a module where ‘sprout’ is unbound?
In a module where it’s bound to a given RTD vs. in a module where it’s
bound to a different RTD?  Does ‘read’ have to be current-module-aware?
Etc.

This example is a bit scary to me:

    > (define lunch '#s(sprout bean))
                                     
    > (struct sprout (kind) #:prefab)
                                     
    > (sprout? lunch)                
    #t                               

since it implies that types are compared by name.

Thanks,
Ludo’.





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