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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Stuart P. Bentley
<stuart@testtrack4.com> wrote:
> Also, why can't the response body just be a string?

If you return a string to the server, it will need to be parsed.
Considering that this data was probably in variables before it became
a string, it's rather wasteful to prepare string output for a parser
when it could be assigned to a var in the API. Or...

Table, fast; string, slow.

Chris
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51st century guy