From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-10-06T22:45:10+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML serialisation problem

On Monday 06 October 2003 05:41 am, Greg McIntyre wrote:
>
> It seems YAML works fine for serialising the Parent object _unless_ the
> child references it, in which case it looks like the &id001 at the root
> of the YAML document throws off the attempt to read it back in as a
> Parent and for some reason it resorts to reading it in as a Hash.
>

Unfortunately, there is a bug in handling of circular references in the 
version of Syck which was shipped with Ruby 1.8.0.  I just tested against 
Ruby in CVS and your script works fine now.  Ruby 1.8.1 should be released in 
a month or so.  You could also check out Syck from CVS and rebuild a new 
module. [http://whytheluckystiff.net/syck/]

Sorry about that.

_why