[racket] what is this thing: '#(struct:foo 3 4) ?
It is a vector (of length 3 with a symbol and two numbers inside).
Robby
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:21 AM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> I've spent long enough with the docs on this not to feel too embarrassed about this question: what kind of value is produced by
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> '#(struct:foo 3 4)
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> (N.B. the leading quote)
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> ... and how can I extract its values?
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> The problem is that I'm trying to use "write" and "read" on the built-in "date" structure. The problem is that since date is #:transparent but not #:prefab, reading it back in doesn't produce a date structure, but rather one of these quoted thingies. I'm guessing there's a simple way to, e.g., transform it into a list, but (having been through the docs for 'write' and for structures), I'm not sure where to find out what it is.
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> John
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