Tony Morris

@dibblego Pickling is about internal representations, evil, security monsters getting ready to eat you.

@markhibberd I have never seen such a thing, except from noisy wrong people. Convince me otherwise.

@dibblego Don't think I need to convince you of anything. You know of the practice that it refers to.

@markhibberd I know of a practice that some people refer to. They do not own a term, no matter how noisy or wrong.

@dibblego Sure, but the transfer of invariants on data between systems is something that is regularly attempted, but never should be.

@markhibberd @dibblego what's the canonical example of that? You mean transmitting a schema? And why is it bad (not that I have an opinion)?

@etorreborre @markhibberd I might send you the string 7 and insist that it is an integer. Who says and why?

@dibblego @markhibberd but doesn't happen all the time? Send data + info on how to interpret it?