The Caml Hump: io

"io" is an IO combinator library for safe I/O over strings and channels, in the style of "picklers" which can then be used with various backends to safely load and save data. Currently available backends include : human readable ASCII, binary and compressed binary. A type-independent command can convert between different representations. The representation for records and sum types is upwards compatible. Note that sharing and circular structures are not supported.