Hi Günther The code in the two serialize modules looks very close to Konstantin Laufer's functional variation of the visitor pattern:
http://webpages.math.luc.edu/~laufer/papers/mixins03.pdf This open recursion style - is used to get "inheritance" / extensibility - there is a more recent paper by Bruno Oliveira, Tom Schrijvers and William Cook here: http://tomschrijvers.blogspot.com/2009/09/effectiveadvice-aop-mixin-inheritance.html Best wishes Stephen _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
