[eclipse-clp-users] Can EXDROutputStream.write() parse strings?

After reading the embedding guide and the javadoc about EXDROutputStream, I
was under the impression that the write method attempts to parse any string
passed in as a compound term if possible, and if that isn't possible, it
would try to parse as a list, number, etc until possibly settling on a
string as the best parse.

But after testing this with ECLiPSe 6.0, it seems that the write method
doesn't attempt to parse into ECLiPSe types. Is that by design? It seems
like there would be built-in support for parsing strings.