Re: [Boost-users] [serialization]

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-17 10:52:20

Daryle Walker wrote:

>> same old question - what's the downside with detecting fundamental
>> brokeness - sounds like a good feature to me !!!
> [TRUNCATE]

> Not if it doesn't work reliably and/or gives the user false hopes.

Ahhh - here is the crux of the matter.  Frequently, I can detect a user 
error.
Sometimes I can't .  The fact that sometimes I can't detect it does
not argue that I shouldn't raise a flag when I do.

Let it be known that:

For anyone with the hope that the serialization library can prevent you
from creating an erroneas archive - these are false hopes.

Robert Ramey