From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-09 23:15:58
Nigel Rantor wrote:
> Robert Ramey wrote:
> Pragmatic:
>
> Well, how about simply treating anything other than 1 as false? I
> realise this means that you are implicitly initialising someone elses
> variable should they serialise and then deserialise but it would seem
> to preserve the effect that you would witness should you use such a
> variable without performing that set of operations anyway so it would
> be an "invisible" side-effect.
>
> Correct:
>
> Initialise all your variables. Shoot all programmers who don't!
>
> And of course, the one true way - tell everyone to initialise their
> variables or bad things might happen and then be lenient on parsing
> anyway.
Actually, my preferred way would be to trap the usage of an unitialized bool
variable
when it is saved. Its not clear that I can do this. But a close substiture
might
be to convert the variable to an integer, throw an exception if its not
equal to 0 or 1
and serialize it otherwise.
Robert Ramey