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Re: Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml



On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:32:46AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> I don't even know what this bin-prot thingy does, do you have a link or
> something to an explanation ?

It provides support for type-safe serialization of OCaml types.
Serialization/deserialization functions are generated on the fly using
camlp4 out of the type declaration, using the "with bin_io" modifier.
E.g.:

  type foo = Foo with bin_io

The quickest pointer to understand what is this about is the README
contained in the distribution tarball. The latter is available at
http://ocaml.janestcapital.com/?q=node/13 .

Cheers.

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