Re: [elephant-devel] Re: Array slots

2008-04-29 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> how do you thik it is supposed to work? Yeah, I wonder. :) > "The remaining problem outlined in the section on Serialization is that > operations which mutate collection types do not have persistent side > effects." What I have mainly carried with me from this section of the documentation wa

Re: [elephant-devel] Re: Array slots

2008-04-29 Thread Ian Eslick
Alex is exactly right, as pointed out by the docs. set-valued slots partially solve this annoyance with persistent collections stored in slots, but they are unordered. Unfortunately aref is not a generic function so you'd have to play package naming games to hijack it which I abhor. I'm o