On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Ben Tilly wrote: > To see what I mean, in Perl write a bit of code that > looks like this: > use Data::Dumper; > $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1; > # Build up some complex data structure here... > $data = [qw(an anonymous array for starters)]; > print Dumper $data; > Play around with the data structure a little and think > about how it looks. You will probably be able to figure > out how to write your objects prettily to this data > structure about as easily as you can write to any > flatfile scheme you come up with, but with this one > parsing is trivial. Do you wish to have an equivalent to Data::Dumper in Ruby? I began writing one some time ago. matju