From: Clark C . E. <cc...@cl...> - 2002-05-03 22:39:23
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| > --- !perl/Foo::Bar [] | > --- !perl/Foo::Bar {} | | Not necessarily! These might represent the *same* in-memory structure. Well, I think that there is nothing saying that your application may interpret them the same; the purpose of the graph model is to describe what an application should preserve if it is going to round-trip data between different environments. | So to me, the distinction between different node "kinds" does not round-trip. | Does that make sense? (I realize this example is somewhat contrived, and | probably not even a very good idea :) Yep. And this is obviously "ok" if it is an application thingy, and you consider your application as having "modified" the data in the graphmodel. However, if these modifications are done, your application cannot consider itself as faithfully round-tripping data. ;) Clark |