From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Alternative *ML syntaxes Date: 19 Nov 2002 21:39:22 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3246730762190153@naggum.no> References: <3DD20E0C.4@nyc.rr.com> <3246208885669993@naggum.no> <3246567106498053@naggum.no> <3246644843844743@naggum.no> <8765uu1pa6.fsf@pokey.henrik-motakef.de> <3246662440604710@naggum.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1037741962 23900 129.240.65.5 (19 Nov 2002 21:39:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Nov 2002 21:39:22 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:47202 * Marco Antoniotti | Could you summarize what makes ASN.1 suitable for "flat file" | representations? (I.e. I'd like to know whether it makes sense to | invest time into it). ASN.1 defines a typed and structured data language, which is then encoded using encoding rules. Almost all encoding rules use type-length-data tuples, which means that you know exactly how many bytes to skip if you are not going to use a particular element of the data. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.