Re: [boost] Re: Re: Re: [fileststem]1.32:withserilization:visibility of m_path

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-09 12:06:20

At 11:30 PM 11/8/2004, Robert Ramey wrote:
 >
 >"Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
 >news:6.0.3.0.2.20041108214926.02e42130_at_mailhost.esva.net...
 >
 >> The ability to serialize based on either the actual internal physical
 >> representation (for "just boost" libraries) or on a logical
 >representation
 >> provided by member functions (for "std" libraries) is really cool, IMO.
 >>
 >
 >perhaps, but I don't know that one can know that it will always be 
possible

I guess it wouldn't be possible if there were important state information 
that is not directory exposed or reconstructible. But I'm not sure how 
common that is. Not very common in "std" libraries, I would guess.

--Beman