From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-03-06T14:38:57+09:00
Subject: [YAML]  Bignum problems


The problems with Bignums in recent YAMLs have been discussed(*), but
does anyone have a patch that can be loaded in ruby code to get around it?

This just turned into a minor disaster for me...

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
$ ruby -r yaml -e 'y 1234567890'
--- !ruby/object:Bignum 1234567890
$ ruby -r yaml -e 'YAML.load 1234567890.to_yaml'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `transfer': allocator undefined
for Bignum (TypeError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `load'
        from -e:1

(*)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/4d62fa19fc7f4ffe/2331cd65b83bffe2?q=YAML+Bignum&rnum=1#2331cd65b83bffe2

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