RE: [code-review] list scope

I've use YAML, and I agree completely -- not for GB files, but a beautiful format for anything smaller, with a great interface.


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> From: code-review-ladder-admin-wool9L35kiek0rBIEb6pKdBc4/[email protected]
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> Behalf Of Paul
> Hoffman
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:02 AM
> To: code-review-ladder-wool9L35kiek0rBIEb6pKdBc4/[email protected]
> Subject: RE: [code-review] list scope
> 
> 
> On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 05:17:06 -0400, 
> [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > It's a bit of work to split your process into a parse and 
> dump phase,
> > followed by an undump and analyse phase but if you end up 
> reanalysing 
> > even
> > once, it sounds like you'll get that time back pretty quickly.
> 
> This is a bit OT, but maybe it'll help someone...
> 
> In a recent project, I used YAML to load and dump intermediate files 
> (basically, at the beginning and end of each make target).  
> My program 
> combines data from three files, each in a different format, and 
> produces two different reports with different contents.  I don't 
> recommend YAML::LoadFile for 1GB files! -- even for 2MB files it was 
> annoyingly slow -- *but* it saved my bacon more than once by 
> letting me 
> see what the data looked like each step of the way; when I 
> saw puzzling 
> output, I was able to pin down my coding logic flaws quickly 
> and easily 
> because the intermediate files were there (and were so easy to read).
> 
> And you can't get much simpler than this:
> 
>    use YAML ();
>    $data = YAML::LoadFile('foo.yml');
>    ... do something with $data ...
>    YAML::DumpFile('bar.yml', $data);
> 
> Paul.
> 
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