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What's wrong with a human-readable serialization format?
by andrewstuart2 12y ago
What's wrong with a human-readable serialization format?
- lorddoig 12y agoNothing - I was talking about this: <input name='kids[1]' value='Thelma'> <input name='kids[0]' value='Ashley'>
- andrewstuart2 12y agoWhoa. I missed that. Probably by clicking the link to the serialization algorithm. That's bad. Really, really bad.
- libria 12y agoWhat structure are we suggesting? This?: <inputgroup name='kids'> <input value='Thelma'> <input value='Ashley'> </inputgroup>
- arcatek 12y agoI guess that it's because at first, it was assumed that it was one of the servers jobs to parse such structures based on their names. Since these same servers failed to establish a consensus (Django using "a=1&a=2" as array, whilst php uses "a[]=1&a[]=1", for example), someone has to start ...