Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill: ...I find that "inline member" makes streaming more or less impossible.
That's why serialization is so cool. You can reconstruct the instance at will -- even remotely.
As for cleanup, my service provider handles that, and I'm not privy to the mechanics. Probably best that way. Left to my own devices, I might resort to to a wire brush.
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Ernest Friedman-Hill
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Is anyone writing Unit Tests for all this? I mean it would really suck if there were regression failures. Trying to clean all that up would be really really messy.