[cl-prevalence-devel] Patch for serializing improper lists

[Sven Van Caekenberghe]

Hi Henrik,

On 27 Jan 2006, at 12:29, Henrik Hjelte wrote:

> I have made some changes in s-serialization that allows improper- 
> lists,
> for example cons-pairs and circular lists. They used to fail with a
> type-error.
>
> I have made the changes inside the method for sequences rather than an
> another method specialised on lists. That way a proper list is  
> output as
> a sequence (which is prettier), and an improper list is output as a  
> list
> of cons-pairs.
>
> Circular lists are handled by first making a fresh cons in the
> hash-table of deserialized objects, and then replacing its cdr with a
> reference to the first cons in the circular list, which is also stored
> in the hash-table.
>
> Some new simple tests have also been added.
>
> The source files are attached, and a diff against the latest  
> version in
> CVS.
>
> I have only tested this on x86 SBCL, but it should work on all  
> implementations.

Your code looks very good; as far as I can see, it works well (I  
tested on LWM).
I applied your changes and checked them in against cvs head.
Thanks a lot for your contributions,

Sven

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