Re: [boost] RE: Serialization Library Review

From: Dave Harris (brangdon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-19 16:31:35

In-Reply-To: <01C28E6C.AE4BF1A0_at_[hidden]>
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:08:14 -0800 Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden]) wrote:
> From: brangdon_at_[hidden] (Dave Harris)
> 
> [snip]
> > ... but wouldn't produce very readable text files. 
> 
> readible text files are a minor convenience useful for debugging - 
> nothing more.

OK.

I think this area, of archives for human consumption, could be valuable. I 
have been wondering whether the newline() function should be made public 
for this reason.

I have also been following the XML discussion with interest. Some 
mechanism for bracketing whole objects, and labelling fields, would also 
be useful for creating human-readable archives.

And human-writable ones, for that matter. In a previous life (using Java) 
I have written unit tests that used XML strings to express "before" and 
"after" states. I found having such tools around to be very valuable.

-- Dave Harris