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From: Alberto G. Corona <agocorona@gmail.com>
Date: 2008/11/2
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: RefSerialize-0.2.1
To: Bulat Ziganshin <Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com>


SerTH is a binary serialization library for Haskell. It supports serializing cyclic datatypes in a fast binary format. SerTH uses template haskell for deriving the serializing interface for new datatypes.

Too bad...I did not know it. Not even many people in the #haskell channel, where i discussed about how badly a functionality such that is needed. 

It restores the references when data is deserialized?. My package is text oriented  and the serialization is readable and eval-uable, so can be used also for debugging purposes.

I use  System.Mem.StableName.  for it.



2008/11/2 Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin@gmail.com>

Hello Alberto,

Sunday, November 2, 2008, 5:02:10 PM, you wrote:
> Read, Show and Data.Binary do not check for repeated references to
> the same data address.

afair, SerTH does it, using GHC's internal address compare function

what way to check for copies you use?


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