From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-03-21T07:31:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Something Confusing

On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:06:44AM +0900, feno7@gmx.de wrote:
> Hello Dear Ruby-Users,
> 
> there is something confusing about the methods .dump, .load and .restore
> within the Marshalling-Routines:
> 
> The Documentations says that with .dump a class could be stored on disk and
> with .load it could be used as .new to create an object, but this is not
> correct, only with the .restore method a new object could be created.
> 
> I tested this with ruby version 1.6.8 and 1.8.0 both same results.

I don't understand what you are saying, please can you post an example which
demonstrates the problem?

'restore' is just a synonym for 'load', according to the Pickaxe book.

Regards,

Brian.