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From: smcl@sytex.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Subject: Re: communicating with scheme (was Re: Removing READ)
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 23:57:42 GMT
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bakul@netcom.com (Bakul Shah) writes:

> In case it is not clear, I am talking about a scheme where both
> _request_ and _response_ are done using Scheme objects.  You'd
> need one bidirectional path for each requestor/responder pair and
> on each such path you'd only see Scheme objects whizzing past.
> 
> Any way, sending, for example, a vector of numbers using Scheme
> notation can be bulky and requires parsing/unparsing.  Binary
> encoding can save transmission/parsing/unparsing time for any
> large structured data.  For an analogous encoding scheme see the

Howdy,
        OK. I'm convinced. Questions(suggestions?):
a] Linking symbols
b] Preserving object identity or maybe a broader
"similarity of constants" idea (from CL) for other
objects
c] Cyclic graphs (see [b])

None of these are killers, although moving on to CL
with it's property lists, DEFSTRUCT and DEFTYPE
facillities, etc. makes my hair stand on end.

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Scott McLoughlin
Conscious Computing
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