std.serialization: pre-voting review / discussion

[ilya-stromberg]

On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 18:26:55 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Monday, 12 August 2013 at 13:27:45 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> Stepping up to act as a Review Manager for Jacob Carlborg 
>> std.serialization
>>
> So as a review manager, I think voting should be delayed until 
> API is ready to address lazy range-based work model. No actual 
> implementation is required but
>
> 1) it should be possible to do it later without breaking user 
> code
> 2) library should not make an assumption about implementation 
> being lazy or eager
>

Can we path current std.xml to add file input/output, not only 
memory input/output? It can helps to serialize big data arrays 
directly in file.