On Saturday, 24 August 2013 at 17:47:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
First, the interface Serializable is actually not necessary
because this is actually checked with at template at compile
time, it's possible to use these methods for structs as well.
Second, instead of checking for both "toData" and "fromData"
when serializing and deserializing it should only check for
"toData" when serializing and only for "fromData" when
deserializing.
The name "isSerializable" is TERRIBLE:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18386187/docs/std.serialization/std_serialization_serializable.html#.isSerializable
It only checks if functions "toData" and "fromData" exists in a
class or struct. But std.serialization can serialize almost any
data, so please rename the template, like
"hasCustomSerialization".
The real "isSerializable" must check if it's possible to
serialize and should look like this:
enum isSerializable(T) = serializer.serialize(T);
