From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T14:51:48+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML.dump(obj, f) ?

Joel VanderWerf (vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
> 
> Would anyone besides me appreciate a YAML.dump method, analogous with 
> Marshal.dump, which takes two args, an object and a File?
> 

Yes, I think so.  I was just looking at Marshal the other day and
thinking identically.  You'll see this in 0.49.3 this weekend.

> 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?

From what I can see of the Marshal.c source, YAML is pretty close.  And
what YAML can't dump, you can teach it to (both dump and load, that is).

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