Re: [Haskell-cafe] Serializing Functions and Actions for Distributed Programming

At Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:07:51 -0400, Brian Sniffen wrote:

I'm very excited by the ability to pass functions or IO actions between threads of the same program. But I don't see any language or library support for doing so between programs, or between sessions with the same program.

There is a project, Mobile Haskell, that deals with this a bit. It requires a special version of the GHC compiler -- and I am not sure how publicly available the patches are. There are a few papers on it such as: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/stg/workshops/TFP/book/DuBois/duboismhaskell/c... j.