A very interesting post. I also believe it is interesting to consider whether it is valuable to make a system of reflection for C++. I'm not sure whether it is or not - but it is interesting non the less. In particular we would be interested in compile-time reflection as well as runtime reflection. I found the links on your subject interesting.
>Second, in terms of Serialization, I'm willing to create a portable, >efficient binary archiver based on CDR (the format used by CORBA). Since >I'm lazy, I will probably steal most of the code from ACE/TAO >(http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html). Note that CDR has minimal >overhead (eg: it has variable byte-ordering, so byte swapping may not be >necessary). If there's interest, let me know. There was much interest in implementing XDR. I believe that initially it proceeded rapidly but bogged down because it depended on the existence of some code shipped only with unix. Ultimately, implemenation of a portable binary stream, requires specific coding for each machine architecture. This makes the task larger than it first appears. Robert Ramey _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
