From: JamesBritt <james@...>
Date: 2002-12-12T08:00:28+09:00
Subject: Re: calling a perl script (YAML serialization?)

> Now here's a crazy idea:  What we had some sort of Inline::Perl that used 
> YAML serialization to communicate between the two sides?  There are YAML 
> serialization modules for both Ruby and Perl and they could be used to 
> pass objects back and forth between the two languages.  An Inline::Perl 
> module would just sort of make the underlying communication between the 
> two transparent.  Certainly most of the builtin types like 
> Arrays, Hashes, 
> String and FixNums would be transportable, I'm not sure how user defined 
> classes would transfer, however (YAML dudes: is this feasable?)

Similarly, couldn't one wrap XML-RPC around the perl code?  

James


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> Phil
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