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Quoting muir@idiom.com:
: 2. Common interfaces to all the marshalling code. In MLDBM,
: there is custom interface glue for each of the published
: marshalling modules. The interface glue provides a common
: interface of 'serialize' and 'deserialize'.
:
: This interface glue varies in complexity.
:
: I would like to propose that all of the marhsalling modules
: export a common set of identical interfaces.
:
: This should be too hard as Raphael Manfredi has already
: written the glue... It "just" needs to be moved into the various
: modules.
To be sure I understand your point here, are you basically saying that
all marshalling modules (Data::Dumper, FreezeThaw, Storable, others to
come) actually conform to an abstract common serializaing interface?
That is to say, in essence, that they all declare:
package XXX;
@ISA = qw(Serializer ...);
where
package Serializer;
sub serialize { die "deferred" };
sub deserialize { die "deferred" };
and therefore imposes heirs to actually define those primitives?
If you're saying this, then I doubt it will reasonably happen. That's why
the glue in MLDBM is there, to try offer a consistent serializing interface,
yet delegating the work to the actual serializing modules , understanding
their respective interfaces and features.
For instance, Storable supports store() and nstore() to deal with native
and network-neutral physical representation. But Data::Dumper has no need
for this, and its designer was free to superbly ignore the issue. Which he
did.
Raphael
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