Re: bug#11198: prefab structs in guile

[Andy Wingo]

On Thu 05 Jul 2012 23:55, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> 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.

To be clear: in Racket, serializable structs are not readable.  That's
the whole point of prefab structs: a struct that is readable.

Andy
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