On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com> wrote:
On 15/07/2010 23:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
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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
Abstain :-) I will observe that it needs a tiny bit more API
stabilisation, but that's almost done.
I want to see this in HP too but I'll wait until Bryan thinks it's ready.
* Vectors: vector
Definitely want.
+1
+1