Re: What does serialization mean?

Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> writes:
> According to Wikipedia, 
>
> "In computing, serialization is the process of translating a data structure or object state into a format that can be stored or transmitted."

So you *do* mean a sequence of characters? You can’t store or transmit (in any general sense) an abstraction or an in-memory object model.

> This is the intention of the text I wrote in the spec, and therefore would claim that the spec as it stands is fine.

With all due respect, what a writer intended when they wrote some prose and what a (reasonably well informed) reader understands when they read it may not be the same. And if they aren’t, the obligation is on the writer to improve the prose.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica

Received on Tuesday, 4 March 2025 14:34:40 UTC