[racket] serializability of ISL structures?
I have considered making them prefab instead
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> On Nov 16, 2013, at 12:32 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think the conversion function is useful pedagogically to talk about
> the need to serialize, but having it just work might be expedient in
> other situations. I do not believe that they are actually
> serializable, but we could fairly easily make that change.
>
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Kind of. If this is about Universe programming (so that students can send messages back and forth), I have them write conversion functions:
>>
>> (define-struct hh (cakes henries))
>>
>> (define (hh->lists hh)
>> (list (cakes->lists (hh-cakes hh)) (henries->lists (hh-henries hh))))
>>
>> -- Matthias
>>
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>>> On Nov 16, 2013, at 11:57 AM, nr at cs.tufts.edu (Norman Ramsey) wrote:
>>>
>>> A structure is defined with `define-struct` in Intermediate Student Language.
>>> Is it serializable? That is, can it be written and then re-read
>>> successfully with `write` and `read`? If not, is there a way to make it so?
>>> (I have found the function `make-serialize-info` in the racket/serialize
>>> library, but the documentation relies on Racket concepts that I have not
>>> yet learned.)
>>>
>>>
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