Re: Batch mode option + customized option

[Alex Lancaster]

>>>>> "P" == P deVries <address@hidden> writes:

P> Is there any syntax description of the lisp files?  

The swarmapps (heatbugs, moustrap, tutorial) all have examples of the
Lisp (Scheme) ".scm" format for reading/writing objects.

Swarm also has a test suite, and if you build the source version, and
run "make check" in tests/defobj and tests/collection you will a whole
gamut of different objects being serialized/deserialized.

The syntax borrows heavily from (but is not identical to) the syntax
for the Scheme programming language:

 http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/r5rs_toc.html

P> I would like to know especially how to get: #:filename "coyote.out"
P> If I create a lisp output of an instance containing the variable
P> "char[x] filename", I get the following: #:filename #1(#\c #\o #\y
P> #\o #\t #\e #\. #\o #\u #\t #\000) What must be the type of
P> filename to get the first, better readable, output?

Try declaring your instance variable as a const char *:

  // input filename
  const char *filename;

When you serialize/deserialize a const char pointer, the Archiver
knows it is a string and formats it accordingly.

Alex
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