[fU] yet another serialization format (just what we needed, i know!)

[stephan b. <st...@ei...>]

i got bored last night, and instead of doing the right thing and doing 
one of the following:
a) install support for qub
b) refactoring s11n to fit more nicely into libfun

i wrote another serialization parser/outputter pair. The format looks 
like this:

somenode=(NoClass
        (a \)\\b) (foo bar) (long this is a long property)
        fred=(FredClass (key value))
        wilma=(WilmaClass (the lovely wife))
        betty=(BettyClass (value the apple of Barney's eye))
        deep=(Foo deeper=(Foo (how_deep really deep!) and_deeper=(Ouch))
)

It generally provides notably smaller files than funxml/txt, 
particularly on large data sets, largely (no pun intended) due to it's 
lack of "class=".
(With compressed files there is no remarkable size difference.)

i'm still not 100% happy with how these parsers are integrated into the 
framework. It's not too painful to do, i'm just generically not 
terribly happy with it, so i'm looking for a cleaner solution.

Just for future reference, it took only about 3 hours to write the 
parser/outputter and completely integrate them into the lib.

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