From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-10-04T01:38:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22019] Re: Marshal won't dump a Proc

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:22015] Re: Marshal won't dump a Proc"
    on 01/10/04, "HarryO" <harryo@zipworld.com.au> writes:

|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?

Procs, Bindings and Continuations contain references to C stack
information which is not portable.  Methods have references to C
function.  All of above information is not portable.

							matz.