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From: newbery@Freeport.ira.uka.de
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Persistence in Eiffel
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Date: 29 Jan 91 12:15:14 GMT
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I understand that in Eiffel you can store an external representation
of an object in a file if the object is of class ``storage''.

I would like to know a little more about the format of the representation.
One simple possibility for such a technique is to store a textual
representation of the object.  Is this how it is done in Eiffel?  or
is there a more sophisticated solution.  Is a representation of the
class itself saved as well or just the representation of the object
(supposedly one can load the external representation back in even using
another program as long as the class is the same).

Many thanks for information or pointers to where I might learn more about this,
Frances Newbery Paulisch (newbery@ira.uka.de)