posted: an infodeck on schemaless data structures, what they are and why you should be wary of using them martinfowler.com/articles/sc…
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@martinfowler And another one, which is verbosity. Both mostly apply to in-memory data
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@stilkov do expand on those themes, I'd like to hear your views.
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@martinfowler will do, but will need more than 140 chars
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@stilkov I look forward to the blog post ;-)
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Why I like schemaless data structures: innoq.com/blog/st/2013/01/wh… //cc @martinfowler
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@stilkov @martinfowler the projects example works just as well with structs. No need to change all-members when adding attributes to struct.
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@_exterm @martinfowler Very much depends on the language being used

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@stilkov @martinfowler Here's a haskell example: gist.github.com/4482720 . Which language did you have in mind as a counter example?
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@_exterm Java for example. Haskell is quite neat indeed.