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Re: Typing and paranoia

• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Subject: Re: Typing and paranoia
• From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
• Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:21:20 +0100
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Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> There is no guarantee that the binary formats exported by one process 
> make sense ton the next, even on the same architecture. I'm confident I 
> can make sense out of XML on both ends. I'm not so sure about binary 
> formats.

I've passed gzip'd data around boxes of different architectures, and I tend to 
be pretty confident I can make sense of it on both sides. There's no reason a 
well defined binary infoset couldn't make anyone confident.

-- 
Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...>
Research Engineer, Expway
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