Re: [boost] [serialization] No Reply?

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-12 16:54:35

David Abrahams wrote:
>  Overload serialize in the namespace of your class.
>
> Then write another, possibly uglier, recommendation that works on all
> supported compilers.  If you have to use macros, that's fine.  E.g.,
>
>
>  // somewhere in the serialization library
>  #if BOOST_NO_ARGUMENT_DEPENDENT_LOOKUP
>  # define BOOST_SERIALIZE(namespace) serialize
>  #else
>  # define BOOST_SERIALIZE(namespace) namespace::serialize
>  #endif
>
>  // user code
>  namespace my { namespace ns
>  {
>    class my_class { ... };
>
>    template <class A>
>    void serialize(A&, my_class); // declaration (unused in non-ADL
>  case) }}
>
>  // definition
>  template <class Archive>
>  void BOOST_SERIALIZE(my::ns)(Archive& ar, ny::ns::my_class& x)
>  {
>     ...
>  }

That sounds like what I did for version 1.32.   I considered a very ugly 
hack.  I don't think I was the only person that felt this way.  I resolved 
to fix it in the next version - and here we are. oh well.

Robert Ramey