[gambit-list] serialization of promises
Darren Baker
darren at wildfire.com.au
Thu Jun 11 20:00:56 EDT 2009
Thanks Marc for your quick response and patch, much appreciated.
>
> There are some general issues with serializing promises:
>
> 1) Gambit can be built to implement "autoforcing" on primitives, i.e.
> (+ (delay 1) (delay 2)) => 3 . So the question is whether
> object->u8vector should autoforce or not.
>
FWIW I view object->u8vector as a non side-effecting snapshot tool, it's
a bit disturbing that the act of looking would change its state. :-)
(Even if such state is supposed to be transparent to the user.)
By the way, turning on the autoforce option would cause an explosion of
unavoidable type checks I assume?
Thanks again,
Darren
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