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[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-10-21 17:19, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:54:47 -0400, Jacob Carlborg <doob at 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

If I can make it work without specifying an attribute on a class why 
shouldn't I. One thing less to think about. It's just in this special 
case the type needs to registered with the serializer.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg