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Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> Marin David Condic wrote:
> > some means of making the data persistent
> 
> Why? What does persistence have to do with maps?

It's orthogonal and highly useful, so it's worth making sure it works.

> Besides, doesn't Ada already have serialization
> for this kind of thing?

Yes, but you have to make it work, yes? It's not automatic. I think the
point *I* was making was that if you define the actual format on the
stream, then you can switch between implementations of maps by
serializing it out and back in again.

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