> BTW. Opossum is used as a configuration language for Gamora, another
> project. Its used as the default text presentation for the Lightweight
> Distributed Objects protocol (as opposed to LDO-Binary, which I mentioned
> earlier).
>
> Its acronym stands loosely for Object Pickler/ String and Stream
> Marshaller.
>
> One of the nice things it was good for was specifying complex arguments to
> functions that knew only about Strings, for example:
> java org.gamora.Foo "{ttl=30, host=casbah.org, port=3228, keys=[salt,sugar,
> pepper, paprika]}"
Gee, isn't it great how much sematic content can be encoded in
strings? :-)
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