I didn't mean to say that there's anything wrong with it. Just that I couldn't imagine a situation where one would want to do it. I see it now. Thanks. Robert Ramey Martin Slater wrote:
ar << *this; // I can't imagine what this if for
Is this going to break with the new release? I use this idiom quite a lot and would hate to have to hack the boost source immediately 1.33 is released. From my point of view this lets me serialise some complex objects with exposing the acutal serialisation mechanism used, hence its an implementation detail that I am free to change without breaking client code. These objects take a file path to load from in a constructor and initialise from that and also have a save member funtion to write out the archive. Whats so odd about that?
Martin