formatspecs, making for much cleaner code. Reformatted everything.
This actually happened in multiple steps but then I corrupted my local
repository and I had to recover from the working tree.
favour of pod objects, which allows STL contains. Lots of shared_ptrs
everywhere. Much simpler and more effective code. The reader works with one of
the decoders; still have to do the rest of them and the encoders.
