From: Erik Veenstra <google@...>
Date: 2006-01-26T06:08:13+09:00
Subject: Re: String#de_inspect (and Kernel#suspicious)

> For the object-> string direction, it may be useful to use
> amarshal, rather than inspect:
>
> http://cvs.m17n.org/~akr/amarshal/
>
> One advantage is with cyclic references. Using #inspect will
> not preserve enough information to reconstruct the reference.

 % ruby -ramarshal -e 'AMarshal.dump([1,2,3], STDOUT)'
 v = []
 v[0] = Array.allocate()
 v[0] << 1
 v[0] << 2
 v[0] << 3
 v[0]

This idea is really nice, indeed.

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/