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From: Jeremy Yallop <jeremy.yallop@ed.ac.uk>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: ANN: pretty-printing, type-safe marshalling, dynamic typing for free.
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:38:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4679822C.1000601@ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr6o6jxfo.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> In `deriving' Pickle is a fairly naive value-oriented serialiser.
> 
> That's an unfortunate choice.  Traditionally, "pickling" was always used for
> the structure&cycle preserving form of serialization.  Sometimes "marshalling"
> was used to describe the naive no-sharing kind of serialization.
> 
> Nowadays, it seems that "pickling" is not used very often and "marshalling"
> tends to take care of sharing and cycles as well, tho.
> 
> Still, in my mind "pickling" implies "the non-naive kind of serialization".

Interesting.  Of course, the name "Marshal" is already taken by the 
OCaml standard library.  Do you have any other suggestions for a name 
for naive serialisation?  "Serialise"/"Serialize", perhaps?


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-20 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-20  0:14 Jeremy Yallop
2007-06-20  8:01 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard
     [not found] ` <AB56B84F-A45E-433B-B419-2B49F5D92043@gmail.com>
2007-06-20 10:27   ` Jeremy Yallop
2007-06-20 18:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-20 19:38       ` Jeremy Yallop [this message]
2007-06-20 21:06         ` [Caml-list] " Eric Cooper
2007-06-21  7:37           ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-06-22  0:05             ` Jeremy Yallop
2007-07-15  4:03 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-07-17  3:05   ` Jon Harrop
2007-07-19  0:20     ` Jeremy Yallop
2007-07-20  6:24       ` Jon Harrop

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