* Jarkko Hietaniemi <j...@iki.fi> [2009-10-09T10:11:35] > I really don't think we should have Perl data structures in files > (that means Perl code, right?), because that indicates doing an eval, > and I don't want to eval any more random code off the 'net than > necessary.
Right. We definitely want a proper serialization layer. (JSON!) I think if read as a proposal to describe the data serialized in terms of Perl structures, rather than the serialization system's forms, this is great. ("author is a string or arrayref" not "author is a character-vector or sequence") -- rjbs