On 11/10/19 5:50 PM, JN wrote:
On Sunday, 10 November 2019 at 10:22:17 UTC, SealabJaster wrote:
Next post is out, I feel kind of iffy over how I went over classes,
but I think for the most part it came out ok. I probably won't touch
classes specifically in any future post though, unless I can think of
something interesting to do with them.
It's outside of the scope of the tutorial, but the "tough" part in
serializing classes is realizing that they're a reference type rather
than value type. Just like with serializing pointers, I could have two
references pointing to the same class object, and a smart deserializer
would create only one class object and point both references to it.
The tough part about serializing classes is if the class is not final,
how do you serialize the derived data. It requires some sort of user
help to tell it how to get at the data.
-Steve
