private fun serialize_as_inspect(v: InspectSerializer)
	do
		v.stream.write "["
		var is_first = true
		for e in self do
			if is_first then
				is_first = false
			else
				v.stream.write ", "
			end

			if not v.try_to_serialize(e) then
				assert e != null
				v.stream.write e.inspect
			end
		end
		v.stream.write "]"
	end