Persistant (as in on disk) data

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| It seems to me that the only thing that is preventing such a library,
is
| agreement on the detail, as distinct from "persistence" of the form
desired
| by iavor, where it appears some experimentation will be required.

I think that's right.

| I am more than willing to document what appear to be the open issues
and
| work through this mail list to gain a consensus on them, with the goal
at
| hand: some document similar to the FFI addendum, provided, of course,
there
| is some support for this.

It'd be a much smaller exercise than the FFI addendum, and perhaps best
captured in the library documentation itself (a la Haddock perhaps) but
no less desirable for that.

Just enumerating the open issues and encouraging resolution would be a
help. =20

Simon