On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:54:47 -0400, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote:
On 2011-10-21 16:17, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
This can still be done. If you have the compile-time type you can always
forcefully generate the run time info (I would expect such a feature
when RTTI is fully developed).
The thing is that you may not have access to the compile-time type, i.e.
:
class Base {}
class Sub : Base {}
Base sub = new Sub;
Now the compile-time information specific for Sub is gone when accessing
"sub".
I have this problem with my serialization library. To workaround this
the user have to register the compile-time type with the serializer to
be able to (de)serialize via base class references.
Well, .NET requires you to put an attribute on a class to allow it to be
serializable. And that doesn't seem to get in the way of .NET code that
uses serialization.
-Steve
