From: itsme213 Date: 2005-01-06T14:46:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Data Structure Query Abstractions/Patterns "Sam Roberts" wrote > I don't know, what's not fun about XML? Since you did not include any smileys ... (1) Having a uniform and extensible concrete syntax for tree structures is great (2) Having a whole set of uniform manipulations on (1) is great (3) Insisting on applying (1) to the concrete syntax of (2) is absurd and the result, ugly Just about every (computer) language has a natural underlying tree structure, with lots of cross-tree links. So, should we now start to write our Ruby using XML ? Ok, I feel better now :-)