Reflections on Serialization APIs in D

[Atila Neves]

> I am curious as to how exactly that would work, does it 
> determine the
> output format at compile-time or runtime? Does it specify the 
> way it's
> serialized, or it's serialized representation? I'd also be 
> curious
> about the performance impact it brings, if any. Depending on 
> it's
> exact function it's perfectly possible that it could actually be
> faster than my toString/parse combo because mine requires the 
> string
> be allocated from toString, due to the lack of knowledge of the
> underlying format.

I promise to announce and explain it soon. Maybe even today. I 
just have to fix one small detail.