"John van V." <john_van_v / yahoo.com> writes:

> > Do you wish to have an equivalent to Data::Dumper in Ruby?
> 
> I would be very intested, in fact it would be crucial for perl-ruby migration.
> 
> Sarathay ( GSAR in CPAN ) wrote the modules about 3 years ago.  He said that
> performance using perl was terrible, and wrote the XSUB modules now used by
> everyone.  Maybe you can borrow code, I am sure he wont mind.
> 
> If/when you complete it, I would be interested in working w/ the C or ruby code
> to format the dumps into either text or html.

Perhaps an idea would be to make the code that actually formats the
data pluggable, so that anyone can write a Ruby class that formats the 
dump the way they want (xml, source, etc)

Dave