Re: dumping arbitrary structures

[Andreas Rottmann]

address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:

> address@hidden wrote:
>>         I'm looking for something which can dump *arbitrary* guile
>> structures to a byte(or scm_t_bits) array - so that they may be
>> transmitted (send()) and recieved and reconstructed cleanly on the
>> other end. It could also be used to save data structures to a file
>> and restore them later on.
>
> (with-output-to-string (lambda () (write object)))
> That will work for built-in data types like lists, vectors, numbers,
> strings, symbols, etc.  User-defined records and classes are a harder
> problem.
>
For classes you might use something like described in
http://unknownlamer.org/code/guile-web-manual.html#SEC4.

Andy
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