[racket] Example of using a struct as a port

I was thinking more along the lines of:

#lang racket
(struct i (x) #:property prop:input-port 0)
(define an-i (i "hello"))
(read an-i) ;; yields 'hello

I know this doesn't work.  IOW, the read operation actually has accesses to
a field inside the struct itself.  If that's impossible, then I'm trying to
understand why structs could be treated like ports, but then the data in
the port doesn't really have access to the field-values in the struct.

Thanks for your help,
--
Chad



On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu>wrote:

>
> On Apr 21, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Chad Albers wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for an example of treating a struct like a port, which appears
> to be possible:
> http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/portstructs.html?q=struct#(def._((quote._~23~25kernel)._prop~3ainput-port))
>
> Apparently, this is a lot easier that using make-custom-port.   What I
> would like to do is be able to declare a struct, set it's prop:input-port
> property, pass an instance of struct to a port procedure, like (read-bytes
> string-that-acts-like-port), and have the bytes sent to the read-bytes
> actually contain bytes that were stored in the fields of the struct itself.
>  Is that possible, and is that the reason why one would treat a struct like
> a port?
>
> Thanks in advance for any examples,
>
>
>
> Do you mean something like this:
>
> #lang racket
> (struct i (x) #:property prop:input-port 0)
> (define an-i (i (open-input-string "hello world")))
> (read an-i) ;; yields 'hello
>
> -- Matthias
>
>
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