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<h1>Serialization</h1>
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<p><a href="StandardML">Standard ML</a> does not have built-in support for
serialization.  Here are papers that describe user-level approaches:</p>
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<p><a href="References#Elsman04">Elsman04</a></p>
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<p><a href="References#Kennedy04">Kennedy04</a></p>
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<p>The MLton repository also contains an experimental generic programming
library (see
<a href="https://github.com/MLton/mltonlib/blob/master/com/ssh/generic/unstable/README"><code>README</code></a>) that
includes a pickling (serialization) generic (see
<a href="https://github.com/MLton/mltonlib/blob/master/com/ssh/generic/unstable/public/value/pickle.sig"><code>pickle.sig</code></a>).</p>
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Last updated Thu Oct 21 15:53:06 2021 -0400 by Matthew Fluet.
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