On Monday 08 July 2002 04:05 pm, John Malecki wrote in personal email:

> This is no an ocaml specific productivity improvement but the ability
> to marshal a data structure without having to write any data structure
> specific code is very productive.  

Speaking of complex data  structures with no code: Oftentimes, I need to 
create data structures, then write code that saves the structure to a file 
and code that reincarnates it. 

AFAICT if a data structure is created using combinations of unions, lists, 
arrays, etc. of built-in types or objects that, e.g. already have "write" and 
"read" methods defined,  then in theory, a hypothetical compiler ought to be 
able to generate such serialization functions automatically (IIRC Lisp and 
Scheme do this because of the simplicity of their type systems, but I may be 
wrong here).

Does O'Caml allow any type of short-cuts to avoid coding serialization 
manually?

Thanks
Oleg
-------------------
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