Range interface for std.serialization

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-08-22 17:49, Dicebot wrote:

> I was thinking about this but do we have any way to express non-monotone
> range in D? Variant seems only option, it implies that any format used
> by Archiver must always store type information though.

I'm wondering how interesting this really is to support. I basically 
only serialize a single object, which is the start of an object graph or 
an array.

> After some thinking I come to conclusion that is simply a matter of two
> `data` ranges - one parametrized by output type and other "raw". Latter
> than can output stuff in string chunks of undefined size (as small as
> serialization implementation allows). Does that help?

Do you mean that only the archive should handle ranges and the 
serializer shouldn't?

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/Jacob Carlborg