On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 02:44 PM, Robert Withers wrote:

>> 2. it does not have to be human readable
>
> that's the meaning of binary, no?
>

That didn't come out right.  It was a rhetorical, sarcastic question to 
myself, since I came up with the list originally.

I think that having a readable, codable format for the various type 
definitions would provide the most advantage.

cheers,
rob