Re: [Chicken-users] Protocol Buffers for CHICKEN

[Felix]

> 
> closure serialization definitely works, I have tried round tripping
> compiled and interpreted procedures with and without surrounding context
> through serialize and deserialize and they are still functional after
> reading them back in.

Excellent.

> 
> Continuations should work, too, but it is non-trivial to construct a
> continuation that doesn't close over all sorts of crazy stuff like the
> input ports from which the interpreter reads library files etc. Fiddling
> around with green threads to delimit the continuations and using the
> facilities to inject "external dependencies" into the serialization
> context of protobuf should do the job, though.

Well, ports for example will never be fully serializable (with the
exception of "standard" ports). Have you seen "suspensions"?

  https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/suspension

They currently use "s11n" but "protobuf" would be the better
mechanism. This might be the path for having a real "termite" for
chicken ...


cheers,
felix