Re: YAML 1.2 Draft 2008-05-11

Hello,

It appears that
    http://dev.yaml.org/ypaste
is not available (browser spins), but
    http://yaml.org/ypaste
is available.

The link to ypaste at http://yaml.org points to the dev address.

Regards,

Brad

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Oren Ben-Kiki <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is released, go to http://yaml.org and grab a fresh copy!
> This is accompanied by YamlReference-0.9.2 which has, as usual, been
> uploaded to http://dev.yaml.org/ypaste - so have fun playing with it.
>
> YAML 1.1 will be used to describe the more than one-year-old spec.
>
> YAML 1.2 will be used to describe the new spec, which includes the
> JSON compatibility stuff.
>
> YAML 1.2 is _almost_ backward compatible with YAML 1.1:
> - It allows omitting the space after the colon for quoted keys
> ({"a":"b"}, which is backward compatible
> - It *disallows* non-ASCII line feeds, which is not; however this is
> not a problem in practice.
>
> The new draft includes a new section that describes three recommended
> schemas:
> - The "failsafe" schema; it is guaranteed to work but doesn't allow
> you to do much.
> - The "JSON" schema; it allows for JSON types and _only_ JSON types;
> - The "Core" schema; it allows for JSON types, but with a more
> relaxed, human-readable notation (e.g., integers may be specified in
> hexadecimal, etc.)
>
> We have used this opportunity to simplify the formats (e.g., integers
> no longer allow '_'  to separate digits, etc.)
>
> We have an *open issue* with regard to null values (in the "Core" schema).
> - Should we still allow the '~' value to stand for a null?
> (Currently the spec says yes, but we want to know if people are using
> it in practice).
>
> Note that an empty value stands for the empty string (in the "Core"
> schema). So, currently:
>
>    ---
>    empty string:
>    a null value: null
>    null shorthand: ~
>    ...
>
>
> We have a one-time chance to change this, if we want to.
>
> Comments, opinions, language fixes, bug fixes, complaints, etc. are all
> welcome!
>
> Share & Enjoy,
>
>    Oren Ben-Kiki
>
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