Edward Diener <eddielee@tropicsoft.com> writes:
I heavily agree on this last remark. Mr. Ramey has done a fantastic job with serialization, even with some really broken compilers, and it works very well with largely conforming C++ compilers. C++ really needs a standard serialization library, especially because IMO serialization is an absolute necessity of C++ RAD programming environments, and I hope to see many more C++ IDE's supporting RAD programming in the future once all the pieces are in place for doing it purely with standard C++.
No argument from me, except that how a library does with broken compilers has zero bearing on its standardizability. For the standard, you wouldn't want to make any design compromises to accomodate nonconforming implementations. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com