[boost] Re: Serialization Review Results

From: Peter Petrov (piettropro_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-12 13:05:40

>     * What kinds of applications are we intending to serve?

Something that I would really like to see, is the cooperation between the
serialization library and the dynamic_any type (developed by Alexander
Nasonov, not yet into Boost). More specifically, it must be possible to
serialize and deserialize dynamic_any's if, of course, the underlying types
support this and the dynamic_any is configured in a suitable way - for
example, to support operator<< and/or operator>>, and possibly something
more if necessary. This would be a very powerful mechanism, allowing
serialization of arbitrary data.

Btw, I tend to agree most with Yitzhak Sapir's definition of serialization,
although it could probably be simplified and cleaned up a bit.