scala/scala — pull request #1027 by xeno-by (2012-07-31 12:46:01+00:00)
Title: first stab at serialization of exprs and tags

Instead of serializing into nonsense that can hardly be deserialized
(which happens now), exprs and type tags will now serialize their creators
and deserialize into scala.reflect.basis.

Since creators produced by reification are not serializable right now,
serialization will crash. That's a small improvement over state of the art
functionality-wise, but it's a step forward robustness-wise.

Next step in this direction is generation of serialization code for creators.
Related issues: SI-5919 and SI-5908. Also see the discussion at scala-internals
http://groups.google.com/group/scala-internals/browse_thread/thread/ef63f8b5bd194c7c