Literal for plain style string

I would like to make a repeated proposal that a future version of YAML
make the plan style string literal vs. the current folding.

I suggested this before b/c it better suited using YAML as a means of
storing programming code b/c many programming languages use a new line
to indicate the end of a statement. The repetitive use of '|' was
unsightly and easy to forget.

Now I have discovered another use. I use YAML for configuration files
as much as possible. But a simple line by line list is generally too
convenient to replace with YAML. However if the default string style
were literal, then such a file would already be vaild YAML (I make an
exception for the mandatory %YAML directive b/c implementations tend
not to enforce this.) In other words a file that looked like:

  some/file/path1
  some/file/path2
  some/file/path3

could be loaded by YAML and would look just as the original file
appears. Currently, the specification causes all these lines to merge
into one line which, obviously, makes the entries ambiguous and
useless.

Thanks,
T.

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