[Haskell-cafe] Serializing Functions and Actions for Distributed Programming

[Jeremy Shaw]

At Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:07:51 -0400,
Brian Sniffen wrote:
> 
> I'm very excited by the ability to pass functions or IO actions
> between threads of the same program.  But I don't see any language or
> library support for doing so between programs, or between sessions
> with the same program.  

There is a project, Mobile Haskell, that deals with this a bit. It
requires a special version of the GHC compiler -- and I am not sure
how publicly available the patches are. There are a few papers on it
such as:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/stg/workshops/TFP/book/DuBois/duboismhaskell/cameraready.pdf

j.