std.serialization: pre-voting review / discussion

[ilya-stromberg]

On Thursday, 22 August 2013 at 13:13:48 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-08-22 13:57, ilya-stromberg wrote:
>
>> Can std.serialization load data if class definition was 
>> changed?
> Yes. In this case it will use the name of the instance fields 
> when searching for values in the archive.

Great! What about more difficult cases? For example, we have:

class Foo
{
    int a;
    int b;
}

After changes we have new class:

class Foo
{
    long b;
}

Can std.serialization load data to new class from old file? It 
should ignore "a" and convert "b" from int to long.