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Immutable serialisable data structures in C++11

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As C++ is very flexible language there are a lot of ways to construct immutable-like data structures from functional programming style. For example, this nice presentation by Kelvin Henney contains one of the ways. Here I will present my way which is slightly different.

At the same time my approach also solves another problem of serialisation of such immutable structures. I use JSON format at the moment, but the approach is not limited to this format only.

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