David Abrahams wrote:
Furthermore, Doug Gregor has designed and implemented (in GCC) a core language extension idea we had in Mont Tremblant that allows us to enumerate all the members of a class. We plan to propose that for standardization. We'd like to see a design that can immediately take advantage of such a feature when/if it becomes available.
This is interesting, can you give a link to any description of this extension? Is it for accessing data members only, or for introspection more generally? I think the fact that the serialization library defines a standardised method of processing an object by memberwise decomposition, has led to some confusion of purposes. General access to introspection facilities would facilitate other uses of serialization and permit the serialization library to focus more directly on its goals. Matt