[armedbear-devel] RfC: Renaming LispObject.writeToString() to LispObject.printObject()

[Mark Evenson]

On Jul 15, 2011, at 09:13 , Ville Voutilainen wrote:

> 
> Why don't we just call it serializeLispObject(), then?
> 

The 'write' provides a clue that the serialization protocol is that
used by WRITE/READ.  There might be other sorts of serialization
we wish to do, like perhaps to provide a SAVE-LISP-IMAGE-AND-DIE
implementation.


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