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From: Mark Shinwell <Mark.Shinwell@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Pickling for OCaml?
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:02:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060106160207.GK5470@three-tuns.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43BE8E82.1000901@barettadeit.com>

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 04:36:34PM +0100, Alessandro Baretta wrote:
> Jonathan Roewen wrote:
> >>Will the Marshall module not do?
> >
> >
> >Marshal is unsafe. Pickling is safe. I'd take pickling =)
> 
> Marshalling and "pickling" are synonyms. The Marshal module does not 
> provide runtime checks, yet, but the Caml team is working at it, as far as 
> I know.

Myself and others at Cambridge, headed by Peter Sewell, are working on
type- and abstraction-safe marshalling for O'Caml that works even where
values to be marshalled are passed through polymorphic functions.
Expect to hear more later this year.

Mark


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-06 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-06  9:59 Jonathan Roewen
2006-01-06 10:16 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
2006-01-06 10:27   ` Jonathan Roewen
2006-01-06 14:30     ` Markus Mottl
2006-01-06 15:36     ` Alessandro Baretta
2006-01-06 16:02       ` Mark Shinwell [this message]
2006-01-11  4:48         ` Jonathan Roewen
2006-01-11  4:50           ` Jonathan Roewen
2006-01-11  8:16           ` Alessandro Baretta
2006-01-06 14:50 ` David MENTRE

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