[boost] Re: Serializaiton:accessing a private constructor

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-13 12:51:54

>Robert Ramey wrote:

>> Of course you can make the load function a friend
>> explicitly.
>> 
>> You argued that this was bothersome and I agreed
>> to address it.  Now that I've spent some more time
>> looking at it - I want to change my mind (again)
snip.

Hmmm - I might be about to change my mind yet again.  

I now believe that the exploitation of placement new
(which I had totally overlooked before) may address
the concerns I raised.  We'll have to see.

>Well, it seems like I'm the only one who reported practical use of your
>library, and actually used it in only small fragment. We seems to disagree
>about private ctors, and only practice can show if this situation is rare,
>or not.

I'm not sure about that.  see http://lists.boost.org/MailArchives/boost/msg52496.php

Robert Ramey