Re: [boost] [serialization] Enhancing Archives with Archve Adaptors

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-27 14:04:26

Peter Dimov wrote:

> When the author of X that has two fields x and y wants to serialize
> it into _any_ archive, he just "says" save(x) and save(y) to the
> archive.
>
> However, the author of Y that contains an array currently can't just
> say save_array(a) to the archive, because save_array is not part of
> the current vocabulary. He needs to say save(a[0]), save(a[1]), ...,
> save(a[n-1]).

he needs to say save(a) that is ar << a.  In any of the proposals
the correct override will be invoked.

Robert Ramey