std.serialization: pre-voting review / discussion

[ilya-stromberg]

On Saturday, 24 August 2013 at 17:47:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> I actually noticed this problem when I wrote the example. 
> First, the interface Serializable is actually not necessary 
> because this is actually checked with at template at compile 
> time, it's possible to use these methods for structs as well. 
> Second, instead of checking for both "toData" and "fromData" 
> when serializing and deserializing it should only check for 
> "toData" when serializing and only for "fromData" when 
> deserializing.

In that case maybe we should remove "Serializable" interface? And 
just spesify that user must implement "toData" or "fromData" for 
custom serializing or deserializing. Is it possible?