std.serialization: pre-voting review / discussion

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On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 19:34:54 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> I have been planning to add a function like that but just 
> haven't got around doing it. This is just a convenience 
> function that is easy to add.

Cool, as I have said it is not something critical that would 
impact my voting, just personal preferences.

> * The serializer does have state. It stores information about 
> what's serialized and keep track that an object is not stored 
> more than once in the archive and similar things.

Ah, makes sense. Well I guess then this is the power for 
robustness in data structure support and nothing can be done but 
hide it behind convenience wrappers. Sad but true :)