From: Barson <not.my.real.email@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T00:26:52+09:00
Subject: Re: comments found in ObjectSpace

Yeah, I am on Windows.

> 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

Great. That explains it. Thanks.





"Bob Showalter" <Bob_Showalter@taylorwhite.com> wrote in message
news:2E4528861499D41199D200A0C9B15BC005EE80AB@fristx.taylorwhite.com...
> 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.
>
>
>