On 11 November 2010 21:23, C. McCann <c...@uptoisomorphism.net> wrote:
> [Snip] What started > this thread, however, was the idea of a serialization function > producing something like a pure ByteString, and why that, as opposed > to (IO ByteString), would be extremely problematic. I think the original poster was intrigued by the possibilities serializing functions and their first guess a type signature was a MacGuffin[*]. Its a lot of work to implement persistence. As far as I know its only implemented for the Windows version of Clean. Napier 88's persistent store was a very substantial development effort for a programing language research project - multi-person, multi-year, EU funded through the ESPRIT Basic Research programme. [*] In case anyone looks up MacGuffin on Wikipedia, I don't think the description there is strictly accurate. A MacGuffin doesn't drive the plot so much as throw the viewer of the scent. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
