tomahawkins: > I have a lot of structured data in a program written in a different > language, which I would like to read in and analyze with Haskell. And > I'm free to format this data in any shape or form from the other > language. > > Could I define a Haskell type for this data that derives the default > Read, then simply print out Haskell code from the program and 'read' > it in? Would this be horribly inefficient? It would save me some > time of writing a parser.
It would be easy but inefficient for more than say, 100k of data. deriving Binary will be faster and almost as easy (the derive script is in the binary/scripts dir). _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
