Re: dumping weird objects to compiled files

[sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu (Sandra J Loosemore)]

The cl-compiler subcommittee is in the midst of preparing a set of
elaborate proposals to submit to X3J13 to detail exactly what kinds of
constant objects may be compiled.  We do think it is important for the
ANSI standard to say more than CLtL does about this.

At the moment we appear to be heading towards the conclusion that the
dump/load transformation on structures created with DEFSTRUCT ought to
always create a structure isomorphic to the original, regardless of
whether or not that structure type has a user-supplied :PRINT-FUNCTION.
However, we have also talked about something similar to the dump/load
protocol you describe in the context of arbitrary CLOS objects.

-Sandra
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