[issue16475] Support object instancing and recursion in marshal

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis added the comment:

Am 20.11.12 18:02, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
> It is a bad idea because features have to be supported in the long-term,
> which means more maintenance effort. So, basically, this is the same
> reason we don't accept every feature request + patch that gets posted
> to the tracker.

For marshal, this actually is of less concern - we are free to change it
whenever we please (and people actually did change it when they
pleased).

Of course, there still must be a demonstrated gain, and that must be
significant enough to justify the size of the change (in diffstat).

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