Re: deriving (was Re: storing to a file)

2002-11-15 Thread Mark Carroll
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, matt hellige wrote: (snip) well, here's one way it might work: http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/derive.htm I'll take a look at that - thanks - it might answer a few of my generic programming questions. although i'm not exactly sure what you mean by 'add your

RE: deriving (was Re: storing to a file)

2002-11-15 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| I was thinking that it might be nice to be able to write Haskell to add, | say, a deriving XML or deriving ASN1 feature whose instances provide | methods to convert between Haskell data structures and those formats, | instead of having to hack the compiler to achieve such automated method |