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The library uses an opaque data type to represent a tree structure
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made of strings, data blocks, arrays and dictionaries (key-value pair
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lists). This structure can be manipulated, written out to and read in
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from a file, and synchronized with the contents of a file.
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The purpose of PL is to closely mimick the behaviour of the property
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lists used in GNUstep/OPENSTEP (there formed with the NSString,
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NSData, NSArray and NSDictionary classes) and to be compatible with
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it. PL enables programs that use configuration or preference files to
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make these compatible with GNUstep/OPENSTEP's user defaults handling
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mechanism, without needing to use Objective-C or GNUstep/OPENSTEP
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themselves.
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