Transmitting Haskell values

[Glynn Clements]

Peter Simons wrote:

> Joachim Durchholz writes:
> 
>  > What sent me first into deep confusion is that I found all of
>  > {Text,GHC}.{Read,Show} first, and the Read classes marked as
>  > "nonportable GHC extensions".
> 
> Then you will surely love the Foreign.* hierarchy, most notably
> Foreign.Storable. If you want to do binary I/O within "standard"
> Haskell, this is the place to look at. I found [1] to be a pretty good
> introduction to the subject.

The problem with Storable is that the representation is
architecture-specific. It isn't suitable for implementing a
"commodity" protocol which can be used for communication between
different architectures.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>