Greetings,

I just had this idea today and it makes a lot of sense to add to the ISO
C++ Standards.

1) Classes and structures are used for what exactly?

- Databases;

- XML I/O;

- Binary XML I/O;

- UI Widgets;

- Neural Network Abstraction & Representation;

- ...

2) What I am suggesting is to add a series of axioms that will
implicitly transform simple namespaced structures into fully functional
code, i.e.:

namespace data

{

     struct Address

     {

         std::string country, state, city, street, zip_code;

         unsigned int number;

     };

     struct Employee

     {

         std::string first_name, surname;

         unsigned int age;

         double salary;

         std::string position;

         Address address;

     };

}

3) You create the axioms:

template <typename T>

     axiom xml

     {

        [...] somehow reads all member variables and converts them into
Database Data, XML, Binary XML, UI Widgets, ...

     };

4) You start using it:

xml<Data::Employee> employee1(/* Creates Connection to XML Server */);

employee1 >> ...; // Writes to XML Server


Or:

ui<Data::Employee> employee2; // Creates widget

employee2 << ...; // Reads from widget


So basically we need to create an mutliusage abstraction layer so that
structures are really defined only once. I still haven't decided the
best way to represent these axioms but I'll come up with something soon.
But basically the "axiom" will have the capability to scan implicitly
all member variables of a given class.


Regards,

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