Re: [boost] Re: Serialization Submission version 6

From: Vahan Margaryan (vahan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-14 11:15:41

----- Original Message -----
Eric Woodruff wrote:
> type_info is not portable in the slightest.

I realize that. I just pointed out that it's not so convenient to have
user-supplied string ids because of the template classes.

Regards,
-Vahan

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 5:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [boost] Serialization Submission version 6
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> >
> > register_cross_program_class_identifier<class T>(const char *id="T")
> >
> > This would be invoked for each class declaration. Now we have
> > a portable id associated with each class - exactly what we need.
> > Polymorphic pointers would archive this tag and use it
> > to determine the proper class to construct on loading.
> >
> > The default class identifier would be the text representation of the
class
> name.
> > (note: in general not necessarily the same as type_info.name() )
> > which is going to be sufficent for almost all cases.
>
> The problem that usually arises from this is having to make up class ids
for
> template classes. type_info does this for you.
>
> Regards,
> -Vahan
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