Ross Paterson schrieb:
It might be not feasible though. The papers mention that you can't serialize (well, actually unserialize) function values with it. For the envisioned update-through-marshalling process, this would prevent me from ever using function values in data that needs to be persistent, and that's quite a harsh restriction.
That's hard to avoid, unless you have a data representation of the functions you're interested in.
I could encode functions by their name. I don't think that would scale to a large application with multiple developers, but it's not this kind of project anyway. I'd be reluctant to accept that way if it means adding boilerplate code for every function that might ever be serialized. Since I'm planning to serialize an entire application, I fear that I'd need that boilerplate code for 90% of all functions, so even a single line of boilerplate might be too much. Regards, Jo