Re: New package: resist!

[Michael Heerdegen]

Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu> writes:

> > > It’s not really an implementation of a persistent (key value) store,
> > > it’s more like an object oriented prin1.
> > 
> > How does your package handle values whose print syntax can't just be
> > `read' to recreate the value?
>
> that’s an issue for pretty much any persistence package, and it would just 
> as well be while using sqlite, persist, eieio-persistent or anything
> else.

Yes, but it's the hard part.  It is what makes saving the Gnus registry
slow, and it is what makes eieio-persistent look "like an object
oriented prin1".

> Now we could try to see what would happen concretely: what kind of values 
> are you thinking to?

The Gnus registry is one example.  Apart from that: most values,
actually, apart from trivial ones: lists, hash-tables, structs.  Most
applications will not just need to save integers and strings.

Michael.