On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Neil Mitchell
== The Question ==
Is there a simple way of tagging fields in a constructor as deferred, just once for reading and writing, and ideally outside the instance definition and not requiring additional code to unwrap? I can't think of any, but there may be something I have missed.
Is there any reason not to just write all lazy fields of variable size in a deferred manner? That would seem like the best option to me, but maybe that's just because I don't see any downside besides the requirement that one use some space to write the size. But that seems like it would almost always be a trivial issue, as any small data element will have a fixed size (so that the deferred/non-deferred distinction doesn't exist). David