std.serialization

[Masahiro Nakagawa]

On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 22:48:51 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic 
wrote:
> On 2/16/14, Dicebot <public at dicebot.lv> wrote:
>> No, it should just serialize the pointed value and make the 
>> same
>> difference upon deserialization - if it is a value, write to 
>> it,
>> otherwise allocate new instance on heap and assign its address.
>
> Speaking of related things like pointers and cyclic references 
> I have
> support for this in my fork of msgpack, but the problem is that
> msgpack is a defined format, so you can't arbitrarily implement 
> your
> own features without breaking the format:
>
> https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-d/issues/7
>
> It's 11:48 PM here in case I'm completely off topic. :P

I just commented.
Maybe, we can support cyclic references by using ext type.

https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-d/issues/7#issuecomment-35230360

I will try it.