CL-STORE: CL Serialization Package - Common Lisp.net

Chapter 1: Introduction 11 IntroductionCL-STORE is a portable serialization package for Common Lisp which allows the readingand writing of most objects found in Common Lisp resolving any circularities which itdetects. It is intended to serve the same purpose as Java's ObjectOutput and ObjectInput-Stream, although it's somewhat more extensible.The CL-STORE Home Page is at http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-store whereone can nd details about mailing lists, cvs repositories and various releases.This documentation is for CL-STORE version 0.6 .Enjoy Sean.1.1 Example(defclass myclass () ((a :accessor a :initarg :a)))(cl-store:store (make-instance 'myclass :a 3) "/tmp/test.out")(a (cl-store:restore "/tmp/test.out"))1.2 Supported Objects Numbers (oats, integers, complex, NaN oats, rationals) Strings (Supports Unicode Strings) Characters Symbols Packages HashTables Lists Vectors And Arrays Instances of CLOS Classes CLOS Classes Structure Instances Structure Denitions (CMUCL and SBCL only) Functions (stores the function name) Generic Functions (stores generic-function-name)1.3 Supported Implementations SBCL CMUCL CLISP Lispworks Allegro CL OpenMCL ECL