I have subclasses of OrderedCollection in my domain model.  These subclasses have instance variables.

In OmniBase, OrderedCollection has a custom serialization-deserialization strategy and has its own class identifier byte.  

This strategy ignores the instance variables of my OrderedCollection subclasses.   Should I add a class identifier for my subclasses and create my own serialization strategy for them?  If so, can I pick any arbitrary class identifier byte that's not taken by another class (I actually get errors when I try to do that...).

Am I violating smalltalk style by giving my collections instance variables?

Thank you in advance.

Derek Brans
Nerd on a Wire
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