On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:45:21AM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Edward Avis wrote: > > > >And as long as no one intends that module authors actually _write_ it > > >(by text editor) then I think it's just fine. > > > > By that argument what is wrong with Storable? > > It's not human _readable_.
Also, the default format isn't canonical. I *think* that the network order format is canonical (in that the source has explicit hacks that do *something* on Crays, apparently to read/write 32 bit quantities) but I wouldn't trust it utterly. And as well as the readability stuff, it has the big disadvantage that it can get mangled by any well-meaning ASCII file transfer. Nicholas Clark
