I just thought a some good reason why I like boxes and why I keep using them in my every day job. It's a silly reason, but it's the best way to access some types of data like macintosh .plist files, we can build a XML to Box translation utility and access it easily, this is also good for *nix users for this system uses structured text files for almost every kind of configuration. for example, when reading com.apple.mail.plist, I can create boxes for every kind of entry and group them respecting the structure, for me thats a very good reason to keep my box.rev on my DVD backup... This way, I have a bAccounts box, this box is a sequence of box, every box is an account, every account is also a box with all the info of the account as the sequence... it's pretty straight forward and better than all, I can just save them in the custom props if I need, or better use my revHTTPd project to post them across the internet, this gives me an easy way to send complex Rev data structures across the net.
Also, I am now using box as my main backbone for my RevLISP implementation, that's the easiest way for the cons cell. So, thanks for the box prime, one of the most used stacks here at my home! :D
Cheers Andre
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