2009/8/6 Will Donnelly <will.donne...@gmail.com>: > > David: > > The issue with using an interface is how it is specified. The options > seem to be either using HConf's approach, and requiring the user to > provide the serialization functions, or using a typeclass. If the user > has to provide the functions in the initial Dyre configuration, that > reintroduces the entire issue that Dyre was designed to eliminate: now > programs that aren't long-running enough to need persistent state > still have to add extra verbosity because they aren't using it. And > using the typeclass approach is basically indistinguishable from > simply using Data.Binary, and defining a new instance declaration for > its 'Binary' typeclass.
The type class could provide an interface for serializing and writing the state to disk. Instances could choose to use Read/Show, Binary or whatever they want, or am I missing something? David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
