Re: binary loadable files

[Michael Livshin]

Keisuke Nishida <address@hidden> writes:

> At Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:53:49 +0100 (MET),
> Dirk Herrmann wrote:
> > 
> > > Hmm, I guess write-object / read-object might be the best in this sense.
> > 
> > Well, these don't give any indication of their 'binary' nature.  So what
> > about write-object-binary / read-object-binary?  A little bit verbose, but
> > tells really all that is needed.
> 
> What about `binary-read' and `binary-write'?  These might be better
> because they indicate they use a different format than that of
> `read' and `write', while taking the same types of arguments.

also be sure to take a look at `oop/goops/save.scm' in the
distribution.

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