cereal.hs

-- Captain Crunch fun: serialization in Haskell using cereal ("serial, cereal... get it?")
-- Install: cabal install cereal


-- serialization
main = do
    let msg = "hello cereal!"
        cerealized = encode msg
    writeFile "myFile" cerealized

-- deserialization
main = do
    contents <- readFile "myFile"
    -- either is a funny function that applies a function to the left or the right ("right, correct... get it?")
    putStrLn ("Decereal'ed message: " ++ (either id id (decode contents)))