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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 22 May 2002, Dave Rolsky wrote: >Anyway, I think it's mostly moot. YAML is darn easy to use: > > print Store ($data_struct); > > my $data = Load($text); > >and that, along with human-readability and minimal requirements probably >makes it a done deal. Data::Dumper is just as easy but as you point out it requires an eval() which allows all sorts of unpleasant surprises. It would be nice to have a 'safe' parser for Data::Dumper, because then you could use it to load and save data in the ideal format (in other words, that which is most familiar to Perl users). Unfortunately no such parser exists, and I haven't used Parse::RecDescent before so I am not able to hack one together in half an hour and attach it to this message :-(. So it looks like YAML may be the only option, at present. - -- Ed Avis <epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk> Finger for PGP key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE867+zIMp73jhGogoRAjtsAJ4rx25BQwxwHPpbXuSocEmjntf7jACfa2xN LQTabyfGZv2Ca/O/C1J31OI= =wDnW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Thread Previous