[m-rev.] Converting univ values to strings

[Simon Taylor]

On 17-Jul-2003, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Estimated hours taken: 6
> Branches: main
> 
> Change the code to print the contents of a univ from io.m to code to turn
> the contents of an arbitrary value into a string in string.m.
> 
> The main motivation for this change is that it has always been awkward to
> swap between io.format etc. and io.print when including arbitrary values in
> printed output.  With the new change, all such formatted output can be
> done via io.format.
> 
> library/io.m:
> 	Move the code for io__do_write_univ etc. to string.m.
> 	Change io__do_write_univ to use the string.m code instead.

I'm not sure that this is a good idea. The performance of this approach
will really suck for large data structures. The double maintenance
problem will go away if/when we implement string streams.

Simon.
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