std.serialization: pre-voting review / discussion

[mrd]

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 from old file to the new class?
>
> Yes. In this case it will use the name of the instance fields 
> when searching for values in the archive.

Is this the right way?

There are special formats (Protocol Buffers, for example) for a 
binary format what can be changed over time without breaking old 
code.

But for normal serialization is not this redundant?
Besides, search by name slower compared with other methods (field 
numbers, for example).