From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-10-18T01:47:35+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 21403-21530

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 21403-21530"
    on 03/10/18, Paul Brannan <pbrannan@atdesk.com> writes:
|
|On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 06:40:41AM +0900, Minero Aoki wrote:
|>   Matz decided to dump/restore instance variables automatically,
|>   even if #_dump/#marshal_dump is defined.  But it causes needless
|>   errors when trying to dump objects which include unserializable
|>   objects, e.g. IO.  Then if an object has #_dump/#marshal_dump
|>   and meets unserializable objects, ruby will not raise exception,
|>   just ignore it.
|
|This seems like a bad idea to me.  My object may have references to
|objects that I do not want dumped, for one reason or another.

I agree you _now_.  That's the benefit from this experiment.  See next
week's ruby-dev summary [ruby-talk:84138].

							matz.