Re: sending list

[Manuel Giraud]

Martin Grabmueller <address@hidden> writes:

> You need to convert the list to a string before sending it to the
> port.  Consider the following:
> 
> guile> (call-with-output-string (lambda (s) (write '(define a 8) s)))
> "(define a 8)"
> 

I don't really understand the behaviour of `call-with-output-string',
the documentation says : 

"Calls the one-argument procedure @var{proc} with a newly created
 output port.  When the function returns, the string composed of the
 characters written into the port is returned."

I don't understand how useful can be a "newly created output port" on
which you have no control (is a socket, a file? which one?). 

Anyway, is it possible with this function and `call-with-input-string'
to send a s-expression (as a string) over socket, retrieve it on the
server side and evaluate it?

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