Re: Robustness Check and "A growing body of ad-hoc analysis solutions"

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "GR" == glen e p ropella <address@hidden> writes:

GR> One thing that was made painfully clear to me
GR> in my recent exercise was that, with ObjectLoader, I default into
GR> providing incomplete parametrizations for whatever object I'm
GR> loading.  E.g. Say I have an object that has instance variables:
GR> [X,Y,Z].  With ObjectLoader, I can provide values for [X,Y] and
GR> leave out Z and it, by default, accepts it and initializes Z via
GR> the normal createBegin createEnd process.  This is *great*; but,
GR> it's a hidden assumption.

That's also how the HDF5 and Lisp serialization works. 
Output will be all the ivars unless you override a
-{lisp,hdf5}Out{Deep,Shallow}: method.  Only in the case of [shallow]
HDF5 compound types (e.g. you made a data frame in R and saved it),
will you get get the entire record loaded. 



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