From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-27 14:04:26
Peter Dimov wrote:
> When the author of X that has two fields x and y wants to serialize
> it into _any_ archive, he just "says" save(x) and save(y) to the
> archive.
>
> However, the author of Y that contains an array currently can't just
> say save_array(a) to the archive, because save_array is not part of
> the current vocabulary. He needs to say save(a[0]), save(a[1]), ...,
> save(a[n-1]).
he needs to say save(a) that is ar << a. In any of the proposals
the correct override will be invoked.
Robert Ramey