From: Phillips, Addison (addison@amazon.com)
Date: Mon Jun 01 2009 - 22:49:23 CDT
>
> >> Besides, there are many fine transfer encoding syntaxes
> available for
> >> transmitting binary data that don't involve pretending that the
> data
> >> is text.
> >
> > Yes sure, but unfortunately, they can't be used in argument
> passing.
> > Setting up IPC just to get some arguments and environmental
> variables
> > is overkill. And it would not illustrate the idea of passing
> objects
> > in the arguments.
>
> I wasn't aware that the purpose of all this was to illustrate an
> idea.
>
Besides: there are other ways to pass objects in (string) arguments. See, for example, http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/
Addison
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