Re: [boost] Re: generic polyvalent input/output ['pickle']

From: Jens Maurer (Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-15 16:48:46

Hello!

Thanks for your comments.

krempp_at_[hidden] wrote:
> BTW, why printing type name only when writing to file ? it is always a
> very valuable information about the written object.
> shift_writer should do it by default..

The current code is just for exposition at the moment. 

> 1_ Persistence lacks nesting of data within convenient block markers.

Yes.

> 2_
> prevention of locale problems resumes to

I haven't thought about locales at all.  That an orthogonal issue
to fix after everything else works.

> "\37777777752" (wonder how this can be the octal code for the
> value of ê..)

Oops, static_cast<> to signed is bad :-(

> 3_
> binary could be made a bit portable...

This would be a portable_binary_writer then.

Hm... I dimly remember that we had some portable integers in boost,
but I can't find them now.  Beman?

> 4_
> I prefer loading/saving via calling operator << and >> on an object.

I'm unbiased on that.

Jens Maurer