From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-05-20T00:30:30+09:00
Subject: Re: (newbie Q) opposite of inspect for strings

Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:

> There used to be a library out there somewhere for doing this with
> almost any object (using #inspect as a marshaling format).  It does not
> appear to be listed on the RAA, though.  I wish I could remember the
> name; perhaps someone else remembers it.

While I do not know it, I would be extremely interested in it.

Something like Lisp's READ is missing in Ruby.

> Paul
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