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1 Serialization
2 =============
3
4 <:StandardML:Standard ML> does not have built-in support for
5 serialization. Here are papers that describe user-level approaches:
6
7 * <!Cite(Elsman04)>
8 * <!Cite(Kennedy04)>
9
10 The MLton repository also contains an experimental generic programming
11 library (see
12 <!ViewGitFile(mltonlib,master,com/ssh/generic/unstable/README)>) that
13 includes a pickling (serialization) generic (see
14 <!ViewGitFile(mltonlib,master,com/ssh/generic/unstable/public/value/pickle.sig)>).