Re: [boost] Re: Serialization (Persistence) library draft submission

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-27 14:11:47

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <ysapir_at_[hidden]>

> > 3) ar << * static_cast<const bus_stop *>(this);
> >
>
> Implementing serialization with << and >> is nice, and it allows you to
> write code like this:
>
> socketstream << some_object;
> cout << some_object;
>
> which looks very generic.  In fact, you may not even need to know which
> type of stream you're serializing too.  However, This is also
> problematic.  << and >> were not meant for serialization of restorable
> non-fielded data as far as I can see.  That is, cout << 23 << 34;  would
> print 2334.  Sent to a file and read back to an int, you'd read "2334".

There are much worse problems with operator>>() than that one, IMO. How do
you unserialize an object with no default constructor?

-Dave