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

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-11-20 20:01:24

Asger,

I'll let Jens respond to your other interesting comments, but I'll try to 
answer a couple of your questions.

At 10:21 PM 11/20/2000 +0100, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote:

 >- On your TODO list, you mentioned that you'd like to have binary
 >formats implemented.
 >Do you plan to implement XDR or GIOP in the near future? If so, it would
 >be interesting to see a performance comparision between the two systems.

Once a persistence framework is done, and portable binary stream 
reader/writer functionality is done, I think it would be a natural to 
provide at least a persistence big-endian (RFC-1832?) portable binary 
reader and writer.

 >Regarding HTML & XML output: Do you really want this in a library in
 >Boost? This would imply having at least a partial XML parser in there.
 >That seems like a lot of cruft for a feature that's mostly useful for
 >debugging.

We have been talking about HTML and XML as examples of formats that use 
nested strings as delimiters.  For example, the simple ability to bracket 
using <td>...</td> strings.  And it isn't so much that we necessarily want 
to include this ability in the boost library as that we want to be sure 
PersistenceReaderConcept and PersistenceWriterConcept are capable enough 
that they could be used for nested string formats.

There are some other formats that need similar capabilities.  C++ value 
initialization { ... } for example.

Thanks for the comments,

--Beman