[lug] C++ question, without buying expensive doc.s

[Zan Lynx]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 19:37 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
[snip]
> To do serialization 'automagically' they need to put a distinct 'magic
> number' in the serializations of distinct object types. Usually this
> is attempted without language/compiler support by having a hidden
> database somewhere in the development environment, and registering
> magic numbers there. I believe they would be much better off using the
> actual object text name rather than a secretly maintained magic number
> database.
> 
> But maybe I'm just a lunatic outlier.
> 
> By the way, who is Tom Tromey?

The best C++ serialization that I've seen involved a Python (or was it
Ruby?) script that generated the serialization code.  I'm sorry that I
can't remember the link.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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