From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-05-05T07:21:36+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML vs. Marshal

Ara.T.Howard wrote:

>On Wed, 5 May 2004, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
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>> I guess _why's suggestion is to make it possible for the drb protocol to
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>>talk between languages, if someone wanted to develop DRb for Python or 
>>Perl. But that does raise a lot of questions...
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>wouldn't that be soap?  ;-)  i hate xml, but this would be wheel reinvention
>for sure...
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Reinvention?  YAML is already a serialization language.  All we're 
talking about is providing a bytecode to allow efficiency where 
readability isn't needed.  It's no different from Rite in that regard.  
We don't need to tax the parser all the time.

You could use the same useful YAML APIs but have Marshal's tightness.  I 
don't know about you, but I'm convinced!

_why