Re: [Haskell-cafe] Serializing Functions and Actions for Distributed Programming

2006-07-30 Thread Einar Karttunen
On 29.07 14:07, Brian Sniffen wrote: I'm very excited by the ability to pass functions or IO actions between threads of the same program. But I don't see any language or library support for doing so between programs, or between sessions with the same program. OCaml provides a partial

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Serializing Functions and Actions for Distributed Programming

2006-07-30 Thread Jason Dagit
On 7/30/06, Einar Karttunen ekarttun@cs.helsinki.fi wrote: On 29.07 14:07, Brian Sniffen wrote: I'm very excited by the ability to pass functions or IO actions between threads of the same program. But I don't see any language or library support for doing so between programs, or between

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Serializing Functions and Actions for Distributed Programming

2006-07-30 Thread Einar Karttunen
On 30.07 12:12, Jason Dagit wrote: Depending on the type of sandboxing that you need/want #2 might be possible with GHC. Take lambdabot for example. lambdabot has made it safe to allow arbitrary expression evaluation by disallowing IO and not importing unsafePerformIO and similar unsafe

[Haskell-cafe] Serializing Functions and Actions for Distributed Programming

2006-07-29 Thread Brian Sniffen
I'm very excited by the ability to pass functions or IO actions between threads of the same program. But I don't see any language or library support for doing so between programs, or between sessions with the same program. OCaml provides a partial solution:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Serializing Functions and Actions for Distributed Programming

2006-07-29 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi I'm very excited by the ability to pass functions or IO actions between threads of the same program. But I don't see any language or library support for doing so between programs, or between sessions with the same program. OCaml provides a partial solution: I know Tom Shackell has been

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Serializing Functions and Actions for Distributed Programming

2006-07-29 Thread Jeremy Shaw
At Sat, 29 Jul 2006 14:07:51 -0400, Brian Sniffen wrote: I'm very excited by the ability to pass functions or IO actions between threads of the same program. But I don't see any language or library support for doing so between programs, or between sessions with the same program. There is