Michel Fortin Wrote:
>
> So because of all this virtual dispatch and all this rigidity, I think
> Formatter needs to be rethought a little. My preference obviously goes
> to satically-typed formatters. But what I'd like to see is something
> like this:
>
> interface Serializable(F) {
> void writeTo(F formatter);
> }
>
> Any object can implement a serialization for a given formatter by
> implementing the interface above parametrized with the formatter type.
I like it. There needs to be some way to hold format-specific state info for a
stream though. I guess this could be done via an external hash (stream address
to formatter state), but it would be nicer if this could be stored in the
stream itself somehow.
