From: Mike Harris <GENIE@...>
Date: 2006-07-29T04:02:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Mongoose 0.2.5 - The "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back" release

Jamey Cribbs wrote:

> Mike Harris wrote:
>
>>>
>> Yup, when you add the b flag, it works (mostly)
>>
>> obj.foo = (1..9).to_a still doesn't work.  When you try and read it 
>> back, you get 1 (a Fixnum).
>>
>> obj.foo = Marshal.dump((1..9).to_a) does work.  Obviously you have to 
>> Marshal.load on retrieval, but it works.
>> Awesome.
>> I'm going to add an :object type and transparent-ize the marshalling.
>>
>
> Did you get the email I sent to you directly?  I attached a test 
> version of Mongoose that added a new data type called :undefined 
> (although I like :object better).
>
> Jamey
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I'll check out your e-mail, per our conversation off-list. 

When you replace the flatten call with a flatten_top call, everything 
works transparently, like you predicted before. 

My "implementation" of flatten_top:

class Array
  def flatten_top
    inject([]) { |s,i| s.concat(i) }
  end
end