At 04:56 AM 10/12/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>It's still early yet, and we have a workable model for our immediate needs.
>But this was weighing on my mind, so I thought I'd get some feelers out
>there while I had pondered this. I'll file any notes away for later.
Cool, thanks. This looks really good, and I think it'll serve us well for
quite a while. Few things:
*) Don't sweat the U32_MAX-1 limit on string size. I'm willing to say I'm
comfortable in limiting the lengths of string constants to being too big
for most filesystems in widespread use in 1998. :)
*) I think we will need some sort of portable float format, unfortunately
*) The constants section will be holding more than just int/float/string
constants. We're going to have to put lists, arrays, and hashes in there as
well, at the very least. Maybe a type ID (with corresponding type ID->name
conversion table), serialized data length, and serialized data triple for
those.
Dan
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