From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2001-05-08T15:31:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14846] Re: Distributed Ruby and heterogeneous networks

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, rise wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> > I'm talking about the transmission format, and about changing it for
> > something similar to Data::Dumper (of Perl fame). One side would generate
> > ruby code from the datastructures and the other side would call eval() on
> > what it gets.
> This would be of great interest to me.  I've been toying with a project
> using DRB that would allow you to create a new thread that would serialize
> itself, launch the thread on a remote DRB server, and then replace the
> created thread with a stub using the DRB connection to control the remote
> thread.  The basic idea is to allow something like

I wasn't talking about sending arbitrary ruby code. The serializer I have
written only generates literals and constructors; that is easier to check
for safety, and anyway you can't peek at Proc's syntax tree, except if you
use extensions like mentioned in [ruby-talk:6190]. Now if someone can
write a Ruby code serializer using either of those extensions...

matju