What it the preferred method to write a class to a file?

[Derek]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:34:12 -0700, Charles D Hixson wrote:

> xs0 wrote:
>> 
>>> P.S.:  Is there a standard library routine for converting
>>> between strings of length 4 and uint-s?  If so I wasn't able
>>> to find it.  If not, I wasn't able to determine that it
>>> didn't exist.  (That would have made writing the sig more
>>> efficient.)
>> 
>> union {
>>     uint asUInt;
>>     char[4] asChars;
>> }
>> 
>> or something to that effect :)
> For some reason when I tried that I was told that I was
> using "illegal utf8 characters".  But Jarrett's approach
> worked fine.

How about 
 union {
     uint asUInt;
     ubyte[4] asChars;
 }

Are you really using *characters* or *bytes*?


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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
"Down with mediocrity!"