From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-12-12T09:22:53+09:00
Subject: Re: calling a perl script (YAML serialization?)

In article <NGEDJNFKAGDNDOIPFPBDGEHHDBAA.james@jamesbritt.com>,
JamesBritt <james@jamesbritt.com> wrote:
>> 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?  
>

Sure, some form of XML serialization could be used too.  I'm just partial 
to YAML these days ;-)

Phil
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