[OT] this is why you shouldn't serialize everything

[Shachar Shemesh via Digitalmars-d]

On 14/09/17 22:26, Meta wrote:
> On Wednesday, 13 September 2017 at 07:08:42 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>> On 11/09/17 12:56, Kagamin wrote:
>> Then it turns out that when you serialize "everything", you also 
>> serialize the undo buffer. So you can read things that someone wrote 
>> and then erased in the document.
> 
> I never knew that, and I sincerely hope that none of my university 
> professors did either.
> 
> 

It was fixed at some point, so by the time you wrote obscenities about 
your U. profs, they may actually have not ended up in the file.

Also, it goes without saying that the docx format is not like that.

Shachar