On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 3:48:22 PM UTC-5, Keith Mason wrote: > > I have a number of variables based on composite types. I want the fields > of these variables synced to disk, so that every time I modify a field, the > data is written to disk. Is there any way to do this with assignment > notation? >
As a more general note, hiding something as expensive as disk access behind an overloaded `setfield!()` may make performance characteristics less intuitive, and make tuning that performance--say, by batching operations together--more difficult. Something to think about.
