[rucksack-devel] Enhancements - Code?

[Phil Marneweck]

Is this (taken from the comments in searialize.lisp) still true? That
option 3 is used?

What do we do when we serialize an object and it turns out to contain
other objects?  There are a few options:
1. Don't allow it: this should be dealt with at a higher level
2. Automatically add the child object to the cache: that means it
   will be saved and we'll get an object-id for the child.  But what if
   the child was already in the cache?  We have no way of knowing that
   and we'll probably create a mess.
3. Just serialize the contents.  This basically assumes that this is the
   only reference to this objects; or, if it isn't, that it doesn't
matter
   if we create more than one copy of this object when we deserialize
   it (and that object identity is irrelevant).
I think I'll go for option 3.