On Friday 15 November 2002 08:23 am, Cees de Groot wrote:
> The advantage is that you can easily marshall/demarshall data
> between anything that understands strings/numbers/arrays/hashes
> (say the basic Perl arsenal of data types), i.e.  it doesn't cost
> too much application code (just convert your objects to a nested
> structure of these primitive data types and let XML/RPC handle the
> rest),

Sigh... as soon as I get some extra time I'm going to do a YAML port 
for Squeak. http://www.yaml.org

I've long wanted to do a YAML/RPC or RMI that works between various 
platforms that support YAML; this includes (right now) Perl, Python, 
and Ruby.

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