Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to serialize thunks?

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:03:42PM +0100, Joachim Durchholz wrote:

If yes: are there workarounds? I'd really like to be able to use infinite data structures in the data that I serialize.

There is an interesting technique thay allows you to serialize infinite, lazy or functional values: don't try to describe how those values look, but how they came to be. In a purely functional language it's easy to guarantee that you will get the same value each time you "replay" it's creation. Those who used WASH/CGI should know what I mean. Best regards Tomasz