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Re: records as s-expressions
From: |
Thamer Al-Harbash |
Subject: |
Re: records as s-expressions |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:56:45 -0400 (EDT) |
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Neil Jerram wrote:
> This won't work. (Or, more precisely, to make it work would be
> arbitrarily complex.) Consider, for example, if the arg is a list of
> <strings or integers>, or a list of lists of <strings or integers>,
> and so on. Type must be implicit in the printed form.
I understand, and thanks for pointing it out. The only way to
implement this is to (write) each field and expect the (read) to
parse it back properly.
I should have thought of this clearer solution earlier.
This doesn't solve the SMOB-in-a-record problem but that's not in
the scope of this feature.
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Thamer Al-Harbash
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Re: records as s-expressions, Rob Browning, 2003/10/16