From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-11-26T14:02:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshal.dump(obj) as String bug?

On Nov 25, 2005, at 10:37 PM, Hampton wrote:

> I'm thinking this is happening because Marshal sends back some  
> weird characters that are
> screwing up the string methods. But, I would still classify that as a
> bug, because when an object returns a string, that should always be a
> fairly safe string to handle or it should be returning something else.

I think of Marshal as returning binary data.  In Ruby, we store that  
in a String.

James Edward Gray II