deriving instances of Storable

[Malcolm Wallace]

"mike V" <mivori at hotmail.com> writes:

> Is there any merit in the idea of allowing instances of Storable to be 
> derived in a similar fashion to Show, providing that constituents are of
> class Storable.
> 
> The benefits would be significant - automatic marshalling of structures.
> uses: storing to disk, passing over network etc etc..

For storage and transmission needs, what you really want is binary
serialisation.  There are a couple of implementations of class Binary
out there already - have a look at the libraries at haskell.org list for
the most recent discussion.

Regards,
    Malcolm