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From: Peter Jolly <peter@jollys.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] extending a type with Marshal
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:54:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.0.20031008225052.0276a258@mail.purplecloud.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031008212257.19628.qmail@web40606.mail.yahoo.com>


>It is reasonable to want to add capabilities to, say, a web server, in
>a backward compatible way so that, say, a legacy content server can
>still be used. Later a new content server can be deployed that
>responds to the new capabilities. Conversely, we might want to augment
>the content server with additional information that will later be used
>by an upgraded web server.

Isn't this precisely the sort of problem that extensible data interchange
formats such as XML are intended to solve? 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-08 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-08 21:22 Ker Lutyn
2003-10-08 21:38 ` Richard Jones
2003-10-08 21:54 ` Peter Jolly [this message]
2003-10-10  8:37 ` skaller
2003-10-10  9:19 ` Christian Rinderknecht
2003-10-10 10:38   ` skaller
2003-10-10 17:19   ` Martin Berger
2003-10-12  9:01   ` William Chesters
2003-10-12  9:06     ` William Chesters
2003-10-12 19:45     ` About ASN.1 and network encoding (was: Re: [Caml-list] extending a type with Marshal) David MENTRE

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