Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
"Jeff Garland" <jeff@crystalclearsoftware.com> wrote in message news:20050423224553.M84538@crystalclearsoftware.com... | On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 23:32:22 +0200, Thorsten Ottosen wrote
| What about serialization -- it's a big library, but really | important.
people are working on a proposal about reflection for C++0x which would give automatic serialization; so we'd better wait with this.
Having a reflection facility in C++ does not obviate the need for a serialization library. Furthermore since the reflection work is closed to those outside of the committee, AFAICS, it may be too late to have a serialization library by the time the reflection work is complete. So I still think having a serialization library, which may need to be retrofitted once the C++ reflection work is done and published to the outside world, is still important. Of course as far as Boost serialization is concerned that is up to Mr. Ramey. I will be sorely disappointed if C++ does not have serialization in the next C++ standard, but perhaps the C++ committee is working on that also.