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Re: ::scr Ramblings of a Classic Refugee or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love OS X
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:15:57PM +0000, Matt Webb said:
> A binary file with a separate definition document gets rid of the
> primary advantage of XML, namely that it can be edited in a standard
> text editor.
A common trap. You're forgetting that ASCII is a binary format, a
sequence of 7bit numbers which happen to map to lookup table which
describes how to draw that character.
> In that case, why is a binary file like that better than
> files being objects? If they had specified accessor methods, they could
> pretend to be any file type they needed too.
Oooh. Nice idea.