FW: save structs, lists

[A. Scottedward Hodel]

John (and Octave users),

Do you have any near term plans to store/load structures and lists
from data files?  I'm trying to decide whether to write functions
such as 
    dat2vec, vec2dat
that would allow storage of structures and lists in save statements, e.g.
myvec = dat2vec(mylist);
save myvec;

...

load myvec
mylist = vec2dat(myvec);
(Obviously, these functions must be able to operate recursively.)
Such scripts would bypass the problem below:

octave:1> mystruct.real = 1;  mystruct.imag = 1;
octave:2> mylist = list(1,2,"joe",mystruct)
mylist =
(
  [1] = 1
  [2] = 2
  [3] = joe
  [4] =
  {
    real = 1
    imag = 1
  }
)
octave:3> save mylist
warning: save: wrong type argument `struct'
warning: save: wrong type argument `list'
octave:4> exit
edalf:/S4/hodel $ more mylist*
# Created by Octave 2.1.10, Wed Jan 13 21:43:14 1999 <address@hidden
ov>
# name: mystruct
# name: mylist

A S Hodel Assoc. Prof. Dept Elect Eng, Auburn Univ,AL  36849-5201
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