---- Krister Svanlund <[email protected]> wrote:
> Shouldn't the function return a string representing the object.rather than
> the object itself, even for a string. It should be up to your application
> to handle if it's a string imho.
> On Jul 3, 2012 2:42 PM, "Nala Ginrut" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > hi guys!
> > I realized that our object->string will do some unnecessary works for
> > a string object.
> > --------------code--------------
> > (object->string "\n")
> > ==> "\\n"
> > ---------------end--------------
> >
> > It's illogical! I get several errors when I'm reading xml files. It
> > generates too many "\\" that I must delete them with redundant
> > operations.
> > I believe we should return the object directly when it's a string.
Object->string takes an optional "printer" argument. The default is write,
but you can also use display.
scheme@(guile-user)> (help object->string)
`object->string' is a procedure in the (guile) module.
-- Scheme Procedure: object->string obj [printer]
Return a Scheme string obtained by printing OBJ. Printing
function can be specified by the optional second argument PRINTER
(default: `write').
scheme@(guile-user)> (object->string "\n")
$1 = "\"\\n\""
scheme@(guile-user)> (object->string "\n" display)
$2 = "\n"
-Dale
