In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:08:14 -0800 Robert Ramey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Harris) > > [snip] > > ... but wouldn't produce very readable text files. > > readible text files are a minor convenience useful for debugging - > nothing more.
OK. I think this area, of archives for human consumption, could be valuable. I have been wondering whether the newline() function should be made public for this reason. I have also been following the XML discussion with interest. Some mechanism for bracketing whole objects, and labelling fields, would also be useful for creating human-readable archives. And human-writable ones, for that matter. In a previous life (using Java) I have written unit tests that used XML strings to express "before" and "after" states. I found having such tools around to be very valuable. -- Dave Harris _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
