On 4/16/2012 11:50 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2012-04-17 08:33, Walter Bright wrote:
On 4/16/2012 11:26 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
Then it won't be possible to serialize third party types if they don't
implements ISerializable. In this case, this solution is no better
then manually
registering types. Actually it's worse, since I can manually register
third
party types.
I'm not so sure in D that you can serialize arbitrary types without them
designed to be serializable. For example, what will you do with unions?
Pointers to global data?
Not all types are serializable of course.
How would you know if they are or aren't, when dynamically loading stuff?
For those types you would have to
register a function or similar. But most other types are possible to
automatically serialize. I don't see a point in making them less serializable by
requiring to implement an interface. I also think mostly one would want to
serialize objects or an hierarchy of objects.
