On arrays as arrays elements (or why I like boxes...)

[Dar Scott]

On Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at 08:02 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> I just thought a some good reason why I like boxes and why I keep 
> using them in my every day job. It's a silly reason, but it's the best 
> way to access some types of data like macintosh .plist files, we can 
> build a XML to Box translation utility and access it easily,

I'm currently up to my neck in alligators, but maybe in a few weeks I 
can visit boxes again.  I hope to get it to the point where I can put 
it on the web site and make it available.

I like the idea of XML/box translation.  Because of that, I might 
remove the ASCII text representation option.

I need to check, but I think the internal number representation might 
have endian problems in the binary version as far as portability among 
platforms.  If XML is the way to move data, then this is less 
important, too.  Maybe all portability features can be removed.

Do you use the chunking interface or do you use the iterator interface 
or both?

Dar Scott