[Haskell-cafe] Re: FRP for game programming / artifical life simulation

[Ben]

I want to save the state of the system to disk, I want to be able to
play the game, pick a point to stop, freeze it and turn off the
computer, and then come back later and resume.  Why is that unwise?
What are the alternatives?

B

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Christopher Lane Hinson
<lane at downstairspeople.org> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure exactly what you want to do.  It should certainly be easy to
> "freeze" an FRP program by lying about the amount of time that is passing
> and witholding all events.  Do you want to save an FRP system instance to
> disk (generally unwise), or something else (what?).
>
> Friendly,
> --Lane
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Ben wrote:
>
>> slightly off topic, but how does one handle pausing / saving /
>> restarting in the FRP framework, especially the arrowized version?
>> i've only been able to do this via explicit (or monadic)
>> state-passing, e.g. imperative / piecemeal versus declarative /
>> wholemeal, which seems against the spirit of FRP.
>>
>> b
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