Re: dumping arbitrary structures

[Paul Jarc]

address@hidden wrote:
>         I'm looking for something which can dump *arbitrary* guile
> structures to a byte(or scm_t_bits) array - so that they may be
> transmitted (send()) and recieved and reconstructed cleanly on the
> other end. It could also be used to save data structures to a file
> and restore them later on.

(with-output-to-string (lambda () (write object)))
That will work for built-in data types like lists, vectors, numbers,
strings, symbols, etc.  User-defined records and classes are a harder
problem.


paul