Jeffrey Faust wrote:
Jeffrey Bosboom wrote:
I've written simple versions of streaming operators (both output and input) for the standard containers as a simple, low-barrier-to-entry form of serialization. Do you plan to provide the input operators too? (I understand this would involve some restrictions on the streamed forms of the container elements to prevent parsing
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By the way, "Explore" is a very uninformative name.
I agree. It came about during BoostCon 2007 when we had some grander ideas about what this library would be. It was to be a way to 'explore' your data, and there were some initial template metaprogramming approaches. The library is ended up in a much more modest form, but the name has remained.
Any ideas for a better name? 'container_streaming' is a bit wordy, and even misleading due to the lack of input operators.
Boost.PrettyPrint, of which the container support is only a part? (the name might sound a bit silly, but has precedence) / Johan