also sprach Robert Ramey
cyclic objects can't be serialized. cyclic object pointers can be serialized with no special effort.
I am starting to feal nausea. Hoever, given that I somewhat misunderstood non-pointer deserialisation, it makes perfect sense, and I cannot conceive a good solution. Well, except for serialising and deserialising only pointers. So now I have to figure out how to prevent wads of memory "leaks" trying to determine when to delete those pointers again. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck invalid/expired pgp subkeys? use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! spamtraps: madduck.bogus@madduck.net "'this must be a thursday,' said arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'i never could get the hang of thursdays.'" -- hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy