Re: persistent lisp objects

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I have no idea what he thinks as novel, but such functions have been
>> available for ages.  Called print and read.
[...]
> That is surely not the best way to serialize objects, but that is better
> than nothing until somebody write something to save hash-table, lists,
> etc... in a data base.

Again, what's wrong with print&read?
That's what your eval-when-compile uses.  All the eval-when-compile does
is to let the byte-compiler serialize an object into a .elc file.
If you're not limited to a .elc file, then it seems a lot simpler to
just use print&read directly.


        Stefan