On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 05:04, William Lovas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:45:28AM +1000, skaller wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 02:33, skaller wrote:
> > > Marshal may not like classes?
> > 
> > Invalid_argument("output_value: functional value")
> > 
> > Arggg. Its a class, not a functional value ..
> 
> ... which is just a bunch of functions wrapped together :)

I'm not using it for that. I have a conflict: I need to marshal
a data structure containing bignums out, and, I need to put
it in a Hashtabl which won't work with bignums because 
polymorphic equal fails on abstract types.

I wrapped the bignums in a class just to get a comparable id.
Now I can't marshal it :(

> Isn't this what the Closures flag was implemented for?

I'm using native code.. and I don't want to output any
functions. All I want is the bignums to be treated 
like an address for comparison, but written out as a value
when marshalling..

It seems the only way to do this is to write an equal function
for my terms... anyhow i just deleted the caches .. more grief
than they wre worth, and didn't seem to speed anything up anyhow.

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