Next question: any way to call a function specified as a string?<br><br>gshow( somefunction ) produces gshow on the output of the function, rather than on the function itself, so not got very far so far.<br><br>For background, the idea is to be able to serialize a function call to something we can pass over the network ,deserialize on the other end, and process appropriately.
<br><br>One could presumably do this using a generator of some sort. Is this the only option?<br><br>I can live with using a generator for this; it's the usual way most implementations of this kind of thing work (ICE, WCF, ...); but if we can avoid using a generator, *** and stay strongly typed ***, it's better.
<br><br>For example, in traditional imperative languages, we'd specify an interface - so ensuring we are strongly typed - and then we are free to implement a serialization/deserialization scheme of our choice.<br><br>