[clean-list] Serializing Atomic Data Types...

[F.S.A.Zuurbier@inter.nl.net]

John van Groningen wrote:
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>Is there an efficient means to convert Reals and Ints to their binary 
>representation stored in a String, and back ? 

For integers you can use >> and toChar, e.g.: 

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For reals you could use the following (not really Clean) functions, to split 
a 64 bit real representation into two 32 bit integers: 

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I guess serialization will be a good candidate for generic programming that recently found its way onto Nijmegen's priority list.

Another candidate could be making a copy of a (not essentially)unique object.

Regards Erik Zuurbier