[Haskell-cafe] Serialize to Haskell

[Alberto G. Corona]

The Read and Show instances are exactly for that purpose.....

2015-08-08 1:04 GMT+02:00 Corentin Dupont <corentin.dupont at gmail.com>:

> Hi Matthew,
> yes that's exactly that.
> I want to do exactly what you would do with a JSON file (read, write), but
> with a data format that would be valid Haskell (instead of valid
> javascript).
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Matthew Pickering <
> matthewtpickering at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Corentin,
>>
>> I don't quite understand your question please can you explain a bit
>> more.  Do you want to read a valid haskell source file, perform some
>> changes to the file and then print out a valid source file?
>>
>> I am a bit confused about the bit about turing-completeness.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Corentin Dupont
>> <corentin.dupont at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello!
>> > I'm wondering if it's possible to serialize some data to a format that
>> is
>> > valid Haskell.
>> > In practice I would read a file like this:
>> >
>> > module Foo where
>> >
>> >   myData :: MyData
>> >   myData = MyData {name = "foo",
>> >                    descr = "test"
>> >                    ...
>> >                    }
>> >
>> > Reading this into a program is easily feasible with Hint, for example.
>> Then
>> > the program would modify some data and serialize it back to:
>> >
>> > module Foo where
>> >
>> >   myData :: MyData
>> >   myData = MyData {name = "bar",
>> >                    descr = "test2"
>> >                    ...
>> >                    }
>> >
>> > In practice I think that the format should be a subset of Haskell that
>> is
>> > not Turing-complete.
>> > A bit like JSON, which is a subset of Javascript but not Turing
>> complete.
>> > Is it possible?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Corentin
>> >
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