[Libsigcx-main] Re: [sigc] Re: [gtkmm] libsigcx and gtkmm 2.4

[Timothy M. S. <ts...@k-...>]

Christer Palm wrote:

> Not only do you need to know how to serialize the object, but you also 
> need the code to do it. And if you don't have it, apart from actually 
> writing it - where would it go? It should, and may have to go into the 
> classes themselves, because of OO principles and the potential need to 
> access private members.
> 
> As much as I would like to have that in C++, it just isn't there. It 
> seems to me that attempting to fix that in Glib just so that you could 
> do cross-tread signalling is just way over the top.

Can't comment on the threading-specific issues raised in this argument, 
but I do have to correct this common misperception that C++ doesn't have 
serialization - it most certainly does, using the OO, type-safe 
iostreams interface.  See boost::lexical_cast for a 
trivial-but-effective tool for putting those serialization capabilities 
to work.

Tim Shead