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Re: bug#11198: prefab structs in guile
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: bug#11198: prefab structs in guile |
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Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:21:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) |
On Thu 05 Jul 2012 15:42, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:
> See also (info "(elisp) Byte Packing")
> which describes Emacs' bindat.el.
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> The context there is network protocols,
> but the design requirements are the same.
Interesting. The use cases are a bit different though; much of bindat
seems to be covered by bytevectors, whereas prefab "structs" (really,
records) can contain arbitrary Scheme data -- symbols, strings, arrays,
etc.
Andy
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