On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones <to...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > On 2011-07-26 1:20 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: >> I don't have a lot of expertise on the ORM side, but I think Snooze >> would probably be awesome and my MongoDB-backed structs may be helpful >> too. > > Is there a way of generically traversing all structure in a completely > privileged way in Racket, without programming at the VM level? For > example, one might wish to serialize some arbitrary data structure or > write an object inspector or interactive debugger.
If you have a sufficiently powerful inspector, you can traverse any structure. In principle, you can even traverse closures this way, but no inspector with the needed power exists. See `struct->vector'. > I'm guessing "no" is the answer, based on the existence of separate > "serializable" and "non-serializable" structure definitions. I guess > that if I were to try it out I'd be defeated by opaque closures and by > the inspector mechanism. Does that sound right? > > Regards, > Tony > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > -- sam th sa...@ccs.neu.edu _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
