Feature #4818: Add method marshalable?

• Status: Assigned
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Target version: -

[yimutang (Joey Zhou)]

Some objects can not be marshaled. Maybe there should be a method to tell it.

hash = Hash.new {|h,k| k * 2}

this hash can't be marshaled because it has a default proc. If existing such method:

Marshal.marshalable?(hash) #=> method "Marshal.marshalable?"
hash.marshalable? #=> method "Kernel#marshalable?"

If you think the method name hard to spell, maybe get a synonym "dumpable?"

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

[austin (Austin Ziegler)]

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Joel VanderWerf
[e-mail] wrote:

On 06/02/2011 07:07 PM, Joey Zhou wrote:

Some objects can not be marshaled. Maybe there should be a method to tell
it.

hash

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

• Target version set to 2.6

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Target version deleted (2.6)