From: ······@bridgetrix.com
Subject: Storing Object
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <ncohen-0408002035360001@max2-69.ip.realtime.net>

How do you store an object to a file without printing it?  I created a
tree using DEFSTRUCT and tried compiling a file with

(setq tree '#.tree)  in it, under MCL 4.0.  The compiler gave an error message:


       Error: No applicable method for args:


             (print-out of tree)


to #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION MAKE-LOAD-FORM #x14D129E>
> While executing: #<CCL::STANDARD-KERNEL-METHOD NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD (T)>


      I can simply print the tree to a file, but that's space-intensive. 
Are there alternatives?

       Neil

Neil Cohen
Bridge Trix

From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: Storing Object
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <cH_i5.3$2m1.30@burlma1-snr2>

In article <·······················@max2-69.ip.realtime.net>,
 <······@bridgetrix.com> wrote:
>How do you store an object to a file without printing it?

You have to define a method for the MAKE-LOAD-FORM generic function, so
that the compiler knows how to create an equivalent object when loading the
file.  Look up that function in CLTL2 or CLHS.

-- 
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