From: HarryO Date: 2001-10-04T00:34:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:22015] Re: Marshal won't dump a Proc In article <20011003170029.A498@michael.neumann.all>, "Michael Neumann" wrote: > You cannot dump > > Proc, Thread, IO (File, Socket ...), Continuation, Method I can understand why Thread and the IOs can't be dumped (because there are underlying operating system structures associated with them), but can't see why Proc, Continuation and Method couldn't be dumped/loaded ... although I could see that it might not be possible in the special case where their bindings included a Thread or an IO of some form. Is it just that it's considered too hard to get right (and I'm not saying it would be easy!) or is there some other reason?