28 Oct
2003
28 Oct
'03
12:57 p.m.
Joachim Durchholz writes:
What sent me first into deep confusion is that I found all of {Text,GHC}.{Read,Show} first, and the Read classes marked as "nonportable GHC extensions".
Then you will surely love the Foreign.* hierarchy, most notably Foreign.Storable. If you want to do binary I/O within "standard" Haskell, this is the place to look at. I found [1] to be a pretty good introduction to the subject. Just for the sake of providing you with an alternative to read / show: Take a look at HaXml [2]. This package provides means to read and write Haskell data structures as XML files, what is about as platform independent as you can get. Peter [1] http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ffi/ [2] http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/HaXml/index.html