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ck2 on Jan 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: S-Expressions: The Fat-Free Alternative to JSON

Of course if you know your dataset and can just use split (or explode) with a single delimiter (ie. |) that's always going to be much much faster and compact.

batista on Jan 20, 2012 [–]

That would only work for one-level lists of values, not general data structures like lists inside lists, dictionaries, in arbitrary nesting etc.

It's not really a general serialization solution at all.

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