[gambit-list] How to save s-expressions
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Sat Oct 27 08:44:49 EDT 2012
Le 2012-10-27 à 4:31 AM, Richard Prescott <rdprescott at gmail.com> a écrit :
> Good morning everybody,
>
> Forgive my ignorance, I am just learning.
>
> In order to embrace the "code is data" philosophy [1], I want to load and save data as s-expressions within files. I figured the load using (read (open-input-file "data.scm")).
>
> How can I save?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Richard
While it does work, your code does not close the input-port and relies on the garbage collector to do this, which is a bad idea (because you may run out of file descriptors before a garbage collection is triggered). It is better to use call-with-input-file which closes the port.
Here are better save and restore functions:
;; File: save-restore.scm
(define (save-to-file filename obj)
(call-with-output-file
filename
(lambda (port) (write obj port))))
(define (restore-from-file filename)
(call-with-input-file
filename
(lambda (port) (read port))))
(save-to-file "data.txt" '#(1 2 3))
(pp (restore-from-file "data.txt"))
Marc
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