From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-01-04T16:08:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Cyclic Marshals :: again the need for a built in creation parent method

Hi,

In message "Cyclic Marshals :: again the need for a built in creation parent method"
    on 03/01/04, Tom Sawyer <transami@transami.net> writes:

|okay, after way too many hours i was finally able to Marshal my objects and 
|overcome the cyclic references that caused a spiraling depth problem. 
|unfortunately it is not a general purpose solution. i could not figure a way 
|to do that. rather i created two methods, a #pre_dump methods that nil'd out 
|the specific cyclic references in my objects before the #Marshal.dump and a 
|#post_load method that restores them after the #Marshal.load.

Hmm, marshal should handle cyclic references. Could you show us the
example program that cause you a problem?

							matz.