From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-09-05T03:09:18+09:00
Subject: Re: PStore thinks REXML document is a singleton?!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Gushee" <mgushee@havenrock.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: PStore thinks REXML document is a singleton?!


> A little bit more info:
> 
> The subject should be "Marshal::dump thinks REXML document is a
> singleton?!" And I've confirmed that the same error occurs regardless of
> whether I'm using irb or not.
> 
> I also took a quick tour through the REXML code, thinking that perhaps
> some member object of the document might be a singleton, but I didn't
> find anything even suggestive of singletonness anywhere: no private
> constructors, no inheritance from singleton classes (unless it's very
> well hidden).
> 
> I wonder how Marshal determines that an object is a singleton?
> Apparently it's implemented in C, so browsing the source code probably
> wouldn't help me much.

I wonder if there might be a singleton method
attached to the object? Just a thought.

Hal