[racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <tonyg at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On 2011-07-27 4:01 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>> If you have a sufficiently powerful inspector, you can traverse any
>> structure.  In principle, you can even traverse closures this way, but
>> no inspector with the needed power exists.  See `struct->vector'.
>
> That sounds fantastic! Especially the traversal of closures. What kinds
> of dark alchemy would I have to engage in to get hold of the necessary
> inspector?

No such alchemy exists, it's just intended as part of the conceptual framework.

> Would such an inspector be able to represent the structure of chaperoned
> and impersonated values accurately?

No, `struct->vector' uses the chaperoned accessors, but doesn't
represent their structure.

> Finally, what about the other direction? I notice there's no obvious
> `vector->struct`. Is there a general way of moving from the description
> of a structure to the structure itself?

No.
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sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu