Dave Abrahams wrote:
on Thu Dec 29 2011, Neal Becker <ndbecker2-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
Dave Abrahams wrote:
on Wed Dec 28 2011, "Robert Ramey" <ramey-AT-rrsd.com> wrote:
So I would be skeptical that something like this would be a good thing to include in the serialization library.
You're the boss.
I'd like to offer a decenting opinion. The use of this is where you need to add serialization to some existing code which you are not free to modify. I would find this very useful.
Me too, potentially... but as Robert points out you can always implement the technique yourself. In fact, maybe it should be a separate Boost library.
Exactly. That would be the right way to go about it. Note that the serialization library has a number of "sublibraries" which I needed at the time but weren't available - some of them are now. Testing, documentation, usage, is independent of the main library itself. Actually I believe that boost has a large number of such components. I sometimes find them and cut them out into a separate module for inclusion in my own code to solve some problem. Robert Ramey