Orange - Free from D1/Tango

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:18:05 -0500, Walter Bright  
<newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:

> On 2/17/2013 12:51 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> I just stripped out all D1 and Tango related code from Orange. D1/Tango  
>> is still
>> supported in the d1 branch. Hopefully this will make it easier to  
>> integrate into
>> Phobos.
>>
>> It also now supports UDA's for indicating a field/class/struct  
>> shouldn't be
>> serialized:
>>
>> class Foo
>> {
>>      @nonSerialized int a;
>> }
>>
>> @nonSerialized class Bar { }
>
> Hmm, shouldn't it be the other way around - marking the ones to be  
> serialized?

I would think D's type system would be capable enough where a  
serialization library can tell whether a type can be serialized or not.

I also think it would be a tremendous burden to put @serialized on every  
type that could be serialized.

When I used C#'s serializer, it was definitely annoying to have to  
annotate every type I wanted to serialize, and every type that was used  
within that type.

What is the concern with an opt-out approach?  I would think the default  
would be the most common option -- save everything.

-Steve