On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 at 16:35:26 UTC, Charles Hixson wrote:
That's sort of what I have in mind, but I want to do what in Fortran would be (would have been?) called record I/O, except that I want a file header that specifies a few things like magic number, records allocated, head of free list, etc. In practice I don't see any need for record size not known at compile time...except that if there are different versions of the program, they might include different things, so, e.g., the size of the file header might need to be variable.
it looks like you want a serialization library. there are some: http://wiki.dlang.org/Serialization_Libraries
