On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:40:39 +0200, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > Plus, we probably do need *some* way for folks to write serializers in > standard Perl 6.
^ This. I faced precisely this problem when trying to write persistent inside-out classes with Class::Std. There was no way to break encapsulation, so I had to write a serialize method. The problem was, I needed to be able to serialize derived classes, so each of them had to say how to serialize themselves. But serialization was a role - instances of the derived classes weren't always persistent - and that violated the separation of thingummy (my terminology isn't so good here, I trust you know what I mean). I don't know how you solve this but please think about this use case. Of course not every object can or should be serialized but elective object persistence is pretty important. -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137001274 http://www.oreillyschool.com/courses/perl1/
