From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-02-19T14:42:25+09:00
Subject: Re: the proc argument to Marshal.load

Hi,

In message "the proc argument to Marshal.load"
    on 02/02/19, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

|Marshal.load((Marshal.dump [0.5,1,[2],"three"]), proc {|x| p x})
|
|==>
|
|[]
|0.5
|[]
|"three"
|[0.5, 1, [2], "three"]	## this is return value, not output of 'p x'
|
|
|I guess 1 and 2 never showed up because they're immediate values,
|whereas 0.5 is boxed, though it has immutable value semantics. Is this a
|bug?
|
|Why didn't [2] show up? And why didn't the whole array show up? Well, I
|guess they both did, but before values were restored to them. That
|accounts for the two [].

The latter [] is the [2] to be.  I guess it's better to change the
timing to call proc.

							matz.