On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > How necessary is this? Can this be a matter of just > choosing Data::Dumper or some other data structure > serialization? Or are you referring to need like adding > a construct to allow a serializer to know whether to do > deep or shallow copies and whether a given attribute is > a transient one (eg a socket).
both, i think. we have several different serialization mechanisms in perl, and each are useful in different situations. and i've definitely been bitten by both the deep/shallow and transient issues.
