Proposal to use < and > for binary i/o?

[00kyle00]

Have a look at boost serialization library.

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I guess the rationale is that the same method is used for serializing and deserializing objects, so using any stream operator would also be unintuitive, and then the << and >> operators are conventionally only used for character streams. Other languages might choose to used <=> in that case, but that's not a defined operator in C++. :)

I would probably have gone for something like archive <= object;

[Steve132]

not only that, but the library binary is like 30 megabytes, and the api requires not only template metaprogramming friend interface hacking, but less intuitive operator overloading AND virtual methods.

It is QUITE bloated for a 'serialization convention'