On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> wrote:
> I mean, as long as types are as simples are pairs we will probably
> write down the very same S-expression, but for more complex types you
> hand up having to choose how to encode them in S-expressions. Such
> design choices can need to be changed in the future as more types will
> be supported.  I fail to see why the future-proofness of such choices
> should be better than that of bin-prot.

Both the S-expression converters and the binary protocol already
support all extensionally defined datatypes in OCaml, and there are no
plans to change their representation.  I think it is fair to say that
both of them are reasonably future-safe.

Regards,
Markus

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