David --

> I'll leave the final decision to you. Just let me restate that I believe
that having the additional
> "render" or "to_s" block (what I called "canonical_form" in <
[email protected]>)
> for display purposes[1] wouldn't hurt as much as not being able to use
defaults for properties.

So after hashing it out in various groups the overwhelming consensus is to
do the parsing part now and leave the generation part for later if the need
materializes.

In the course of the discussions I realized that I don't understand your
"not being able to use defaults for properties" comment.  Could you
elaborate?

-- Markus
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