Robert Ramey 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.
:-( I think Gennadiy has managed to convince Outlook to work fine over NNTP. Thunderbird works fine either way.
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
And why that code makes you doubt that function output formatters are helpfull? Basically, he just implemented the same idea: formatter, which has some begin/end string and nested formatter for elements.
[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.
Could you be more specific. I don't know where in the code to look. Do you mean it's possible to change the separator used betwee name-value pairs? How? - Volodya