From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-08-06T17:34:47+09:00
Subject: Can't marshal MatchData?

Folks,

I understand there are 4 kinds of things you can't marshal: singleton
methods, IO objects, bindings, and ... and ... someone will fill in.

Why then, can't you marshal MatchData objects?  To wit:

  irb(main):108:0> Marshal.dump(ms[63]).size
  TypeError: can't dump MatchData
          from (irb):108:in `dump'
          from (irb):108
          from ?:0

[ms is an array of MatchData objects]

I don't think MatchData is the fourth item in the incomplete list above.

Gavin