Re: [j-devel] Save-image w/Serialization

[Ville V. <vil...@gm...>]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Alessio Stalla <ale...@gm...> wrote:
> I'm afraid that every object you want to serialize has to implement
> Serializable (or inherit from a class which does - and given how ABCL

Not really. If the containing object implements custom serialization
(by defining writeObject, readObject and readObjectNoData), the object
can serialize contained objects just fine, without requiring that the
contained objects implement Serializable. Sure, all top-level (from the
serialization point of view) objects need it, but anything "under" that
level does not.

Anyhow, the point you make about making LispObject serializable seems valid,
and avoid polluting it everywhere.

I only wonder if the capability of being serializable is inherited,
because I would
think it might not be. Once again, I may be wrong.