On 4/17/2012 1:10 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
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?
Essentially, I'm concerned with a vast amount of data being generated for every
type and inserted into the executables (which are already large). Even worse,
I'm concerned that such a feature will not "just work" when one wants to
serialize a class that wasn't designed to be serialized, and it'll come off as a
crappy half-assed buggy misfeature.
