Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > startpairs(name) >> > endpairs(name)
> start/end pairs does the same thing, only what gets frozen is a series of > pairs (key/value things) rather than individual entries. And yes, I > realize that you can simulate pairs with alternating key/value entries in > the freeze stream, but I'd rather keep them separate. In the mean time I've checked in freeze/thaw for PerlHash. It uses an element count as list does. We could of course use your proposed scheme with start/end-markers too. But thawing a list of a (first) unknown amount of items isn't really as simple as having a count. > Dan leo
