Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:

On 15/07/2010 23:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart mailto:dons@galois.com> wrote:

Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1

New capabilities: * Binary parsing: binary + cereal ?

Why both? Their parallel existence and purpose is already confusing, without blessing the two :-)

Right, if there are are two competing libraries and it's not clear which one is best, that's a sign that we shouldn't put either in the platform until the differences are resolved. Fight it out and get back to us when you have an answer :-)

Lennart has added a continuation based interface, on top of which the current lazy interface is implemented. The continuation based interface supports a strict interface, with error checking. Whenever that interface is released binary should subsume cereal.

* Unicode: text

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Abstain :-) I will observe that it needs a tiny bit more API stabilisation, but that's almost done.

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I want to see this in HP too but I'll wait until Bryan thinks it's ready.

* Vectors: vector

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Definitely want.

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