[boost] Re: Serialization Review Results

2002-12-12 Thread Peter Petrov
* What kinds of applications are we intending to serve? Something that I would really like to see, is the cooperation between the serialization library and the dynamic_any type (developed by Alexander Nasonov, not yet into Boost). More specifically, it must be possible to serialize and

Re:[boost] Serialization library review

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Petrov
code fragments such as: line 95-96 of archive.cpp seem unacceptable to me: // note breaking a rule here - is this a problem on some platform is.read(const_castchar *(s.data()), size); Although is non standard I believe that the above code will work on all known platforms. It yields an

[boost] Proposal: comparable_any and ordered_any

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Petrov
Hi, The boost::any type is currently limited because it's impossible to be used as the key type in a map or a hash_map for example. It is obvious that adding comparison operators to boost::any is unnacceptable, because that would require all value types to also have these operators defined.