[plt-scheme] Printing Structures without using custom-write

Or maybe a third option in thd new-things-from-mzscheme department
would be to expose the struct-specific default printer, to help you
break the infinite loop? Does that help?

Robby

On 10/10/07, Sam TH <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On 10/10/07, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > On Oct 10, Sam TH wrote:
> > > On 10/10/07, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > > > On Oct 10, Sam TH wrote:
> > > > > I have this already, because it would be very hard to some things
> > > > > otherwise.  But it's not a total solution - you can't debug your write
> > > > > handler with printf, because you immediately get an infinite loop.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, it requires having all your structures defined with a macro that
> > > > > expands to define-struct, which is the case for me, but limits the
> > > > > applicability of the technique.
> > > >
> > > > Can't you have a parameter that conrols your own output, and based on
> > > > that your printers will spit out the nice output or something that
> > > > looks like the standard output?
> > >
> > > Yes, but then you have to re-implement the standard printer.
> >
> > ...which is a one liner, so it shouldn't be a problem in practice.
>
> This is false.  It's one line per structure, which is significant for
> any complex set of structs.
>
> > Conceptually, there may be future extensions to struct printing that
> > you'll want to have -- but even with that I think that if you want
> > your own output then you should go all the way with that.
>
> I don't even understand what you're suggesting here.
>
> Perhaps I didn't make my point clearly enough in my original message.
> Mzscheme doesn't currently provide a way to print structs without
> using custom-write procedures.  Before I implement such a way, I'm
> interested in people's feelings on the design of such a feature.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> sam th
> samth at ccs.neu.edu
>