[Haskell-cafe] Serializing Functions and Actions for Distributed Programming

I'm very excited by the ability to pass functions or IO actions between threads of the same program. But I don't see any language or library support for doing so between programs, or between sessions with the same program. OCaml provides a partial solution: http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Marshal.html Though all it's really sending is an address and a hash of the binary program. Even SerTH doesn't help with functional types. I seek the knowledge of the Haskell Cafe: is there a reasonable way of addressing this problem? -- Brian T. Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu or brian.sniffen@gmail.com http://www.evenmere.org/~bts