On Sunday, 2 October 2022 at 21:03:40 UTC, rassoc wrote:
But say, I'm curious, what's the purpose of adding an
optional/useless contents field? What's the use-case here?
We have a class/struct for a data record,
some of its data fields need to be saved/loaded from CSV files;
while there are other helper fields which are useful for various
computation tasks (e.g. caching some intermediate computation
results), these fields do not need to be saved/loaded from the
csv files.
A CSV library should consider all the use cases, and allow users
to ignore certain fields.
