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3 points by rocketnia 301 days ago | link | parent

Hmm, all right. I didn't want to believe that was the point you were trying to make. In that case, I think I must not have conveyed anything very clearly in the `correcting-arc-read` comment.

I've been trying to respond to this, which was your response to that one:

"Racket also has mutable hashes created using `make-hash` rather than `hash`. It could just be that the tables are not serialised as something Racket reads as mutable hashes when deserialising it back again?"

In the `correcting-arc-read` comment, I used `make-hash` in the implementation of `correcting-arc-read`, so I assumed your first sentence was for the edification of others. I found something to respond to in the second, which kinda pattern-matched to a question I had on my mind already ("Can't the Racket reader just construct a mutable table since what was written was a mutable table?").

As for my response to your "No..?"...

One of the purposes of `correcting-arc-read` is that (when it's used as a drop-in replacement for Arc's `read`) it makes `readfile1` return mutable tables. So if anyone had to be convinced that a reader that returned mutable hashes could be implemented at all in Racket, I thought I had shown that already. When it looked like you might be trying to convince me of something I had already shown, I dismissed that idea and thought you were instead trying to clarify what your proposed alternative to `correcting-arc-read` was.

Seems like I've been making bad assumptions and that as a result I've been mostly talking to myself. Sorry about that. :)

Maybe I oughta clarify some more of the content of that `correcting-arc-read` comment, but I'm not sure what parts. And do you figure there are any points you were making that I could still respond to? I'd better not try to assume what those are again. :-p