[#1816] Ruby 1.5.3 under Tru64 (Alpha)? — Clemens Hintze <clemens.hintze@...>

Hi all,

17 messages 2000/03/14

[#1989] English Ruby/Gtk Tutorial? — schneik@...

18 messages 2000/03/17

[#2241] setter() for local variables — ts <decoux@...>

18 messages 2000/03/29

[ruby-talk:02212] Re: Ruby/Glade usage questions.

From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2000-03-28 07:15:32 UTC
List: ruby-talk #2212
>>>>> "m" == mrilu  <mrilu@ale.cx> writes:

m> I think Python can marshal arbitratry construct to the disk. So is it
m> possible to make this kind of pickling possible for Ruby too? I think
m> loading ready datastructure on dedicated C-extension would be the fastest
m> thing to do (instead of XML parsing, or Ruby parsing).

 ruby has a Marshall module, but :

 * the interpreter is a "black box"
 * difficult to do it with 1.4.3 because you need to distinguish  a symbol
 (i.e a ID) from a constant (it's possible now in 1.5. I think)


Guy Decoux



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