On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 07:20:10PM +0200, Corentin Dupont wrote: > Hi, > Sorry if it was not enough explicit. > I want to write functions like this: > > serialize :: (Show a) => Event a -> IO () > deserialize :: (Read a) => IO () -> Event a > > The functions would write and read the data in a file, storing/retrieving > also the type "a" I suppose...
Can't you simply, when defining the type event, add a "deriving (Show, Read)"? Then the standard (but slow) read/show serialisation would work for you. If you're asking to de-serialise an unknown type (i.e. you don't know what type it should restore a-priori, but you want to do that based on the contents of the file), things become a little more complex. Unless you can further restrict the type 'a', really complex. Maybe stating your actual problem, rather than the implementation question, would be better? regards, iustin _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
