Re: [Boost-users] [Serialization] How do Imake boost::serializationwork with std::shared_ptr?

On 09/29/2013 11:51 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:

boost::shared_ptr. The current code implements the "helper" idea in a way that is orthogonal to the rest of the code and doesn't require adding any new template parameters. As I said, I would like to see this generalized. This would entail adding a new facet

What is the underlying problem? Is that C++ does not have partial specialization for template functions? (i.e. serialize/load/save) If so, then we could solve the problem with functors. I have used this technique to solve a somewhat related problem, namely that my archives required a different serialization for collections than provided by and friends. The functor part can be seen at: http://sourceforge.net/p/protoc/code/ci/master/tree/include/protoc/serializa...