9 Nov
2004
9 Nov
'04
5:06 p.m.
At 11:30 PM 11/8/2004, Robert Ramey wrote:
"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> wrote in message news:6.0.3.0.2.20041108214926.02e42130@mailhost.esva.net...
The ability to serialize based on either the actual internal physical representation (for "just boost" libraries) or on a logical representation provided by member functions (for "std" libraries) is really cool, IMO.
perhaps, but I don't know that one can know that it will always be
possible I guess it wouldn't be possible if there were important state information that is not directory exposed or reconstructible. But I'm not sure how common that is. Not very common in "std" libraries, I would guess. --Beman