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Robert Spooner wrote:

> The important thing to remember is that the stream representation (which 
> can be whatever you want so long as it can be represented in an array of 
> Stream_Element) is associated with the type, not the stream itself.

   Yes, we agree, that is one of the limitations I was talking about: 
you cannot serialize an object of a specific type using different 
representations (i.e. you cannot have two different 'Write procedures 
for the same type).

   Thank you for your ideas and experiences,

Rodrigo