[Haskell-cafe] Re: Orthogonal Persistence in Haskell

[Pasqualino 'Titto' Assini]

Hi Claus,

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 16:41:16 Claus Reinke wrote:

> with orthogonal persistence, everything a program touches might
> persist, but usually, programs talk about the data being persistet (?),
> not about whether that data is currently temporary or in long-term
> storage. if you want to move such data between processes or storage
> areas, you move the reference, and the system handles serialisation/
> communication/deserialisation behind the scenes.

This is interesting, could you elaborate on it?

How would you get data to move around by moving its reference?

    titto