Re: deriving instances of Storable

"mike V" <mivori@hotmail.com> writes:

Is there any merit in the idea of allowing instances of Storable to be derived in a similar fashion to Show, providing that constituents are of class Storable.

The benefits would be significant - automatic marshalling of structures. uses: storing to disk, passing over network etc etc..

For storage and transmission needs, what you really want is binary serialisation. There are a couple of implementations of class Binary out there already - have a look at the libraries@haskell.org list for the most recent discussion. Regards, Malcolm