[Haskell-cafe] Re: How to serialize thunks?

[Joachim Durchholz]

Tomasz Zielonka schrieb:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:03:42PM +0100, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>> If yes: are there workarounds? I'd really like to be able to use 
>> infinite data structures in the data that I serialize.
> 
> There is an interesting technique thay allows you to serialize infinite,
> lazy or functional values: don't try to describe how those values look,
> but how they came to be.

Ah, that's an interesting approach that I haven't thought of.

What are its limits? Does it impose design constraints?

Regards,
Jo