id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,lang,patch,platform
1106,Cannot presently dump Class pmcs,Austin_Hastings,whiteknight,"Invoking _dumper (the front end to Data::Dumper) on a RPA returned from the `.parents()` method of a P6object class produces an exception:
{{{
""VAR1"" => ResizablePMCArray (size:2) [
    Class {get_iter() not implemented in class 'Class'
current instr.: 'parrot;Data::Dumper::Default;genericHash' pc 125 (runtime/parrot/library/Data/Dumper/Default.pir:127)
called from Sub 'parrot;Data::Dumper::Base;dump' pc 382 (runtime/parrot/library/Data/Dumper/Base.pir:252)
called from Sub 'parrot;Data::Dumper::Default;genericArray' pc 421 (runtime/parrot/library/Data/Dumper/Default.pir:323)
called from Sub 'parrot;Data::Dumper::Base;dump' pc 382 (runtime/parrot/library/Data/Dumper/Base.pir:252)
called from Sub 'parrot;Data::Dumper::Default;dumpWithName' pc 40 (runtime/parrot/library/Data/Dumper/Default.pir:57)
called from Sub 'parrot;Data::Dumper;dumper' pc 69 (runtime/parrot/library/Data/Dumper.pir:44)
called from Sub '_dumper' pc 66 (runtime/parrot/library/dumper.pir:93)
called from Sub 'parrot;Grand2;main' pc 24958 (src/gen_classtest.pir:10552)
called from Sub 'parrot;Grand2;_ONLOAD' pc 24771 (src/gen_classtest.pir:10491)
called from Sub 'parrot;Grand2;_block99' pc 24673 (src/gen_classtest.pir:10459)
make: *** [classtest] Error 1
}}}

I don't know if dumper was using `genericHash` because the class pmc identified itself as a hash, or if because Hash is the eventual root of the class hierarchy. Regardless, crash-and-exit seems inappropriate behavior.",bug,closed,minor,3.0,library,1.6.0,medium,fixed,,,,,all