> [Reply redirected to perl6-internals, as requested by Dan Sugalski]
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> At 13:20 -0500 2000-07-31, Garrett Goebel wrote:
> >- Pickle looks like a better XS. But I don't know much about it
>
> What Pickle would that be? Python has something with the right name,
Gah!! That shows my ignorance of Python. I, too, did a (fairly
cursory) web search before naming Pickle. It's a better XS and Embed
for C++; see http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=pickle and my recent
postings to perl6-internals.
-John
> but "[t]he pickle module implements a basic but powerful algorithm
> for ``pickling'' (a.k.a. serializing, marshalling or flattening)
> nearly arbitrary Python objects. This is the act of converting
> objects to a stream of bytes (and back: ``unpickling''). " That
> (from <http://www.computing.ee.ethz.ch/.soft/python/lib/pickle.html >
> ) doesn't seem to me to describe an external API. If you mean
> something else, can you supply a reference as a (fairly cursory)
> search of the web shows me nothing.
> --
> Dominic Dunlop
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