From: "Markus Mottl" <markus.mottl@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Serialisation of PXP DTDs
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:53:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8560b80810230953n25486e4bq68a670a8f724ef14@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081023163738.GA27707@usha.takhisis.invalid>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> wrote:
> I mean, as long as types are as simples are pairs we will probably
> write down the very same S-expression, but for more complex types you
> hand up having to choose how to encode them in S-expressions. Such
> design choices can need to be changed in the future as more types will
> be supported. I fail to see why the future-proofness of such choices
> should be better than that of bin-prot.
Both the S-expression converters and the binary protocol already
support all extensionally defined datatypes in OCaml, and there are no
plans to change their representation. I think it is fair to say that
both of them are reasonably future-safe.
Regards,
Markus
--
Markus Mottl http://www.ocaml.info markus.mottl@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-23 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-22 20:11 Dario Teixeira
2008-10-22 23:05 ` Sylvain Le Gall
2008-10-23 15:34 ` [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2008-10-23 16:37 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2008-10-23 16:53 ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2008-10-23 19:26 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-10-23 21:05 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2008-10-23 22:18 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-10-23 22:50 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2008-10-23 22:21 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-10-23 23:36 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2008-10-24 9:11 ` Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen
2008-10-24 14:03 ` Markus Mottl
2008-10-25 18:58 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2008-10-26 18:15 ` Markus Mottl
2008-10-26 19:47 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2008-10-24 21:39 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2008-10-24 22:27 ` Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen
2008-10-25 19:19 ` Mauricio Fernandez
2008-10-23 16:46 ` Markus Mottl
2008-10-23 14:55 ` [Caml-list] " Gerd Stolpmann
2008-10-23 18:41 [Caml-list] " Dario Teixeira
2008-10-23 18:58 ` Markus Mottl
2008-10-23 20:04 ` Dario Teixeira
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