From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id JAA25483; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:37:34 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25382 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:37:33 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com (host145-68.pool80116.interbusiness.it [80.116.68.145]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gBQ8bWH25195 for ; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:37:32 +0100 (MET) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9851273B6; Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:39:33 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E0AC045.3080307@baretta.com> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 09:39:33 +0100 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Gushee , ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-platform DBM equivalent? References: <20021226071747.GC1071@swordfish> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Matt Gushee wrote: > Hello, all-- > > I am developing an application that needs fast access to persistent > configuration data, and I thought that DBM might be a good way to > provide that functionality ... Are you sure you need DBM to reed in a config file? Would the Scanf module not serve your purpose? If you need something really bizarre, go for PXP, the polymorphic XML parser, and use XML for configuration. Alex ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners