Hendrik> A can is like a pickle, in that it is a string, but anything
Hendrik> can be canned. Unlike a pickle, a can cannot leave the
Hendrik> process, though, unless the object it points to lives in shared
Hendrik> memory.
Got some use cases?
Thx,
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