From: "Damián M. González" <lists@...>
Date: 2012-09-17T00:20:37+09:00
Subject: Re: "Anonymous classes or modules", what they are? (Marshaling)

Brian Candler wrote in post #1076224:

> It is, but this is a special case.
>
> {"foo" => String, "bar" => Array}
> is serialised as just references to the class named "String" and "Array"
>
> If it worked the way you wanted, then instead of serializing the name it
> would have to serialize everything needed to reconstruct the classes
> "String" and "Array" - including the methods.
>
> So what we gain is the ability to have objects which contain references
> to (named) classes, which is useful, without being able to serialize the
> classes themselves.

 Can you give me a short example?

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