From: Robert <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-04-29T16:28:17+09:00
Subject: Re: How to undefine a member variable ? (or at least hide it from YAML)


"Simon Vandemoortele" <deliriousREMOVEUPPERCASETEXTTOREPLY@atchoo.be>
schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:Utmra.66334$t_2.6154@afrodite.telenet-ops.be...
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 at 21:58 GMT, gabriele renzi wrote:
> > maybe you could write an attr-like method to automatically unsets the
> > variables, kind of "rem_varname".
>
> That's a very good idea actually. I have a 'noempty_attr_writer' that
> removes variables if they are == nil. I suppose that is what you meant.
>
> However, I'd prefer a solution on YAML level for this problem.  This is
> really a 'hack'; I should be able to tell YAML: don't save 'nil' values
> please (pretty, with sugar on top).

That's exactly what I'd prefer, too.  Do you really have performance or
space problems because of all those unused fields?

Regards

    robert