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Date: | 2002-05-28 (11:19) |
From: | Michal Moskal <malekith@p...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] help regarding 'union' |
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:52:54AM +0200, Animesh Pathak wrote: > dear members, > I am new to caml and am currently trying to write a program which involves > sending of data across a network connection. What I have to do is to send a > complex structure (containing lists of integers, mutexes etc. ) across a > network. In C, i would have used a 'union' with a char array and sent the > array... how is it done in caml? > Kindly help me regarding this problem of mine. Look at module Marshal. You can convert any (well, non-cyclic) datastructure to string and send it. However beware that marshalled structures might be imcompatible between OCaml releases (they however are compatible (unlike C union solution) between different machines). -- : Michal Moskal ::::: malekith/at/pld-linux.org : GCS {C,UL}++++$ a? !tv : PLD Linux ::::::: Wroclaw University, CS Dept : {E-,w}-- {b++,e}>+++ h ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners