From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-02-13T02:24:34+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML and Class

Martin Hart wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I notice that the default YAML (ruby 1.8.1) does not dump or load Class by 
>default.
>
nor does marshal:

     >> Marshal.dump( Class.new )
    TypeError: can't dump anonymous class #<Class:0x81d2d14>
            from (irb):1:in `dump'
            from (irb):1

i can't recall why this is, but the rule is there because I've adhered 
to marshal's rules.  nahi or matz is better equipped to answer.  i 
thought we had this discussion on ruby-core, but i can't seem to find 
the reasoning.

_why