[MLton-user] Fwd: Plans for pickling in MLton?

[Matthew Fluet]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2007, Vesa Karvonen wrote:
> Roland Olsson <roland.olsson at hiof.no>:
>> I have been using MLton for MPI programming the past years and would like
>> to have support for pickling, also known as serialization, in order to
>> more easily be able to send and receive data objects. Even if there are
>> combinators for pickling, such as the ones published by Andrew Kennedy and
>> others, it would make life easier to have pickling "built-in" in MLton.
>
> I believe that MLton used to have built-in pickling, but I think that
> it was removed at some point (before I personally started using
> MLton).

Indeed, it has been disabled for 6+ years.  The difficulties are briefly 
described at:
   http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2005-July/027287.html

I believe the conclusions there still remain.