From: Volker Nitsch
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> Note 'save of strings has some bugs before last /core-experimental,
> specially with »{». do not:

Thanks, Volker, I didn't know this.  Rather I should say that I wasn't
aware of this, but that may explain why I had some problems in some
trials.  No way to know now.

> Then, 'save  is similar to copy/deep, so if you have two references to
> the same object,
> there are two seperate objects after 'do .
> And of course if you rely on contexts (hand-made bind), this will not
> save correctly.

Also good to know.

> Knowing this, 'save / 'do is very handy, don't know of a better way.
> (hope i have mentioned all?)
>
> But, some while ago someone said he has written a serialisation which
> handles some of this problems

I guess that this point was what I was getting at.  I should go search
escribe for old posts on this topic.  (I guess I should have done that
before asking in the first place.  :)
Thanks.  --Scott

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