Re: [Boost-users] [serialization][any]Do we haveserializationsupport for boost::any?

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-27 11:18:52

Arkadiy Vertleyb wrote:
> "Robert Ramey" <ramey_at_[hidden]> wrote
> 
>>Much fame and fortune will accrue to he who creates the function
>>
>>template<typename T>
>>char * guid()
>>
>>which returns a unique char string in a platform independent way.
> 
> Might be done pretty easily on top of typeof emulation.  Of course, custom
> type/template registration would be required.

I don't see how typeof helps?

One, not exactly platform independent, way is to have a per platform 
translation of typeid(T).name() to a portable description.

And by "unique char string" I hope Robert meant the string contents are 
unique, not that it would return the same pointer in all contexts.

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