13 May
2008
13 May
'08
7:01 p.m.
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Jules Bean
One thing which you can't obviously do is write Read or Show instances for Dynamic. So can we pass Dynamic data over the wire? If not, Dynamic is limited to the context of "within a single program", and can't be used over the network between cooperating programs, or in file formats, etc.
I've never used hs-plugins, but if I recall properly, it includes its own implementation of TypeRep (and consequently Dynamic) in order to overcome the serialization problem you have mentioned.