From: Bob Showalter <Bob_Showalter@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T00:15:40+09:00
Subject: Re: comments found in ObjectSpace

Amarison wrote:
> I ran the following code:
> 
> all = []
> 
> ObjectSpace.each_object do |obj|
>   all << obj
> end
> 
> File.open('objectspace.txt','w') do |f|
>   f.puts all
> end
> 
> 
> and I was surprised to find comments in objectspace.txt. I was under
> the impression that Ruby skips comments when parsing code.
> 
> Very strange behaviour... Anyone cares to explain? Thanks

I don't see the comments when I run on FreeBSD, but I do see them when I run
on Windows. I'm guessing this is source code that has previously been
parsed, but not yet garbage collected. If I add ObjectSpace.garbage_collect
at the beginning of the program, the source code doesn't show up any longer.