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
next prev parent 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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