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Serialization -- reversible conversion of all Macaulay2 objects to strings

Description

This package provides the user with the capability of saving Macaulay2 objects in a file and recovering them later, in another Macaulay2 session.

The implementation is still experimental and preliminary. Not all types of objects are handled.

Author

Version

This documentation describes version 0.1 of Serialization.

Source code

The source code from which this documentation is derived is in the file Serialization.m2.

Exports

  • Functions and commands
    • mark -- mark mutable objects and symbols as not needing serialization
    • serialize -- reversible conversion of all Macaulay2 objects to strings

For the programmer

The object Serialization is a package.