Daniel F. Savarese wrote:

In message <1DDB0D3CC4E7F14FAE946361C0A606550143CA11@isr-jlm-mail.Kayote.com>, "Moshe Matitya" writes:

I want to thank you guys for spending time on this. I know it's time consuming and you have other things to do. I'm watching the discussion in the hope that a consensus will be achieved and I can just update i/oserializer with the conclusion. If you made a simple - reliable test case, I would consider adding it to the test suite as this aspect of the library is important to me. However, I realize that that might not be possible. And compromises - like presuming that no de-serialization occurs before main is called are very acceptable to me - given the alternatives. Note that the order of creation is related to the fact that we use this idiom - instantiation via the usage of static variables - in several places. On is to instantiate serializers for derived classes (later) and one for maintaining the global table of types that the system knows about (sooner) Maybe that is helpful. Robert Ramey