Re: records as s-expressions

[Marius Vollmer]

Thamer Al-Harbash <address@hidden> writes:

> Would there be any interest in accepting a patch which makes
> records print out as s-expressions so they are more easily
> serialized?

Yes!

> Would this break any standards or cause backward compatibility
> problems?

Depends on your implementation...

I see two choices: follow Common Lisp and use #S(<type> ...), or
follow SRFI-10 and use something like #,(record <type> ...).  I don't
think there is any SRFI that specifies a concrete read syntax for
records.

We already use #s for uniform arrays, but overwrite it when (srfi
srfi-4) is loaded...  #S is free, tho.

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