Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell RPC

"S. Alexander Jacobson" wrote:

Given that we have no easy way to serialize thunks, the whole RPC approach just seems wrong for Haskell.

Tom Shackell is developing a simple bytecode reflection API to be implemented in the yhc compiler. This will allow the transmission of arbitrary function code across the network for execution on a remote machine, with the results fed back to the calling machine. e.g. encodeF :: (a->b) -> Bytecode (a->b) dynload :: Bytecode (a->b) -> (a->b) Work in progress... There are doubtless lots of security issues here, not least type safety.... Regards, Malcolm