From: Rozental, Gennadiy (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-13 16:38:45
> 1) I don't like the non-intrusive way of specifying the
> version/save/load operation. The rationale for having the
> serialization<> template in the global namespace is quite weak. The
> alternative of using free functions is much better IMO. The library
> should use unqualified calls to those free functions and
> Koenig look-up
> would do the rest. This solution has also the benefit that
> specialization is replaced by overloading, a feature that is
> more easily
> supported by compilers.
Moreover IMO it simply would not work because of the inheritance, or I
missing something.
Gennadiy.