http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg71956.php Message: 2 Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:54:02 +0400 From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> Subject: Vladimir Prus wrote:
Robert, can I first of all ask you to use a mailer, or a news reader, which preserves threading? Recently experiments have shown that Mozilla Thunderbird, for example, works fine both with emails and with NTTP gateway, and it's free. You can also try some other clients, but please do something about the issue.
Hmmm - I've been trying to configure my MS Outlook to do this and its driving me crazy.
The idea of the library, as I see it, is to provide object serialization, but - without the overhead serialization library has - with extra layout tweaks
Yes, it would be nice.
For objects of the type being discussed, (i.e. no pointers, no class versioning, no memory tracking of duplicates, etc) the serialization library has no extra runtime overhead.
Basically, I want every call I define to have a 'dump' method which can be called from debugger. So, I need output facilities available in every translation unit.
If function output formatters is helpful for making output more easily presentable, fine. Though G. Rozenthal's, experiment makes me doubt this.
Which experiment?
I was referring to Rozenthals post: http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg71956.php [On the other hand, if output formatters is to be an alternative implementation of the functionality in the serialization library ]
I believe the demos and documentation in the serialization package show that it to be much, much easier to use than the proposed library for this purpose.
Robert, while I agree that serialization is immensely useful, the point you make above is a bit skewed. Which example in the serialization library shows how to change start/end delimiter of a vector?
That's what the xml_archive does for name-value pairs. The same method could be used for any user defined types. Robert Ramey