[racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

From: Tony Garnock-Jones (tonyg at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 27 15:21:48 EDT 2011

On 2011-07-26 1:20 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> I don't have a lot of expertise on the ORM side, but I think Snooze
> would probably be awesome and my MongoDB-backed structs may be helpful
> too.

Is there a way of generically traversing all structure in a completely
privileged way in Racket, without programming at the VM level? For
example, one might wish to serialize some arbitrary data structure or
write an object inspector or interactive debugger.

I'm guessing "no" is the answer, based on the existence of separate
"serializable" and "non-serializable" structure definitions. I guess
that if I were to try it out I'd be defeated by opaque closures and by
the inspector mechanism. Does that sound right?

Regards,
  Tony


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