[e-lang] Newbie questions about persistence

[Thomas Leonard]

On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 10:21 +0100, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 15:43 -0400, Kevin Reid wrote:
[...]
> > But as a workaround, you can define the proxy as you describe. I would  
> > recommend making it part of the implementation of the oneShot, and not  
> > exposing its existence to the user. (One way to do it would be to have  
> > your oneShot serialize, not as its current state, but rather the slot  
> > of the used flag: def uncall := [makeOneShot, "withFlagSlot",  
> > [&used]]. Then the 'used' slot object serves as the un-duplicatable  
> > object.
> 
> That's clever - thanks!

Oops. I spoke too soon. Looks like only final slots can be persisted:

#   . <makeRef>.fulfillment(<ref broken by problem: Can't uneval <var false>>)


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