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