Re: [MirageOS-devel] sexplib v0.9.0 breakage of MirageOS unikernels (xen & solo5)

[Daniel Bünzli <daniel.buenzli@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, 24 March 2017 at 18:05, Rudi Grinberg wrote:
> While it's good that a more portable alternative to sexplib is being created,
> it's a real shame we're not going to have compatibility between the types. 

[...]

> I understand that this might be necessary and have no technical objections. 
> But
> it's important to point out this unfortunate consequence.



I'm not sure exactly what your point is here. Sexpm is a generic s-expression 
codec, you can decode to and encode from whichever representation, and hence 
types you want. 

What it won't however is parse the same syntax. I don't think that adopting 
OCaml's string literal convention for your sexp strings is a good idea, 
especially in the age of Unicode. In other words, sexpm parses UTF-8 streams, 
not byte streams.

Best, 

Daniel

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