Mark Glines wrote:
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Are there any drawbacks to this patch? The only thing I
can think of is that its harder to read the .dump file now that it's
binary.
I do have some qualms.
(1) I know that there have been issues with incompatibility among
different versions of Storable. I myself have been bit by these issues
with different versions of Storable distributed with different versions
of Perl 5.8 (not to mention 5.6). Some of these issues are alluded to
in the POD
(http://search.cpan.org/dist/Storable/Storable.pm#FORWARD_COMPATIBILITY).
I have never heard such compatibility issues with respect to
Data::Dumper. This is not a killer objection, but it should be considered.
(2) Not that I'm opposed to Storable entirely. Hey, I use it in
Parrot::Configure::Trace! But there, as in other places I've used it,
I've always found I got better mileage by using 'nstore' instead of 'store'.
kid51
