From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T08:31:30+09:00
Subject: YAML.dump(obj, f) ?


Would anyone besides me appreciate a YAML.dump method, analogous with 
Marshal.dump, which takes two args, an object and a File?

Besides bringing the interface into line with Marshal, this would avoid 
generating an intermediate string, as in

   f.write(object.to_yaml)

I'm just thinking about GC frequency, not functionality...

Note that you can already do

   object = YAML.load(f)

(I'm not sure whether it generates an intermediate string.) So having 
dump as well would be kinda natural.

While we're comparing Marshal and YAML, does anyone know if there are 
any object types that one handles but the other doesn't? Are they 
equivalent, as far as what they can serialize?

I've been very impressed at how well YAML treats Ruby data, but maybe 
there's a gotcha somewhere...