From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-08-23T13:04:25+09:00
Subject: Re: remove_const, Kernel.load, and already instantiated objects

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Brent Dillingham
<brentdillingham@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The only thing I can think of is to try to finagle a way to copy existing
> objects into the newly defined Class, using serialization or something
> crazy, but that sounds really messy and probably not worth it.

Not *that* messy - you basically walk the object space, marshal
everything, reload the class and unmarshal it. Works fine as long as
you don't want to restore closures.

martin