comp.lang.ruby

Eric Hodel

9/23/2003 7:11:00 PM

David Garamond (lists@zara.6.isreserved.com) wrote:

> Remembering that all classes are instances of the Class class, is this
> possible? I want to create some class named, say C1, which is empty (or
> perhaps with one or two class instance vars) by loading a YAML document.
> I can''t seem to create instances of Class class in YAML, while I can
> easily do this in irb:

irb(main):002:0> 5.to_yaml
=> "--- 5"
irb(main):003:0> Class.to_yaml
ArgumentError: can''t dump anonymous class Class
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml/rubytypes.rb:8:in `to_yaml''
from (irb):3
irb(main):004:0> class Foo; end
=> nil
irb(main):005:0> Foo.to_yaml
ArgumentError: can''t dump anonymous class Class
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml/rubytypes.rb:8:in `to_yaml''
from (irb):5

Does not appear possible to do with Yaml, but you can with Marshal:

irb(main):007:0> Marshal.dump(Foo)
=> "\004\010c\010Foo"


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