From: Rasputin <rasputin@...>
Date: 2003-06-19T05:50:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Stability of Marshaling format

* Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> [0636 20:36]:
> Mark Wilson <mwilson13@cox.net> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 01:55 PM, Martin DeMello wrote:
> > 
> >> Would including readers for older marshal formats somewhere in the
> >> distribution make sense? I can definitely imagine scenarios where my
> >> marshalled data might outlive my ruby version.
> > 
> > Or better yet (perhaps), an "on-the-fly" converter of older formats to 
> > the newer format.
> 
> I'm unconvinced this is better - we don't want to encourage data to hang
> around in the old format, after all.

Is there currently a 'format version' field recorded with the
object somewhere? That lets future generations decide for you.

"never put off till tomorrow what you can dump on your grandchildren" :)

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