Stefan Strasser writes:

> that's the same approach.
> code seems to be written by an external code generator instead of a c++
> compiler, but there is no difference beyond that, is there?
> .NET for example implements serialization based on its reflection mechanism.
> it iterates at runtime through the (reflected) fields of a class and extracts
> the data.
> I don't think an external code generator is "cleaner".

 

I don't claim that an external code generator is cleaner,

but that the Ebenezer approach is cleaner, since it

(usually) writes marshalling functions at build time.

C++ compilers should have been able to do that for

10 years now, but for whatever reason that isn't

being developed.

 

 

Regards, 
Brian Wood
http://webEbenezer.net

"Then Samuel took a rock and set it up between
Mizpah and Shen.  He named it Ebenezer [Rock of
Help] and said, 'Until now the L-RD has helped us.'"