Re: New standard...

Douglas,

I think that's an interesting idea, but well out of scope for the 1.2 spec,
which is due to be released in a few days.

After 1.2 is out we can start talking about 1.3 and other interesting stuff.

Cheers, Ingy

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Douglas Mayle <[email protected]> wrote:

> There was some discussion on this list about the new standard, and
> while it's probably too late for such a change, I thought I'd mention
> an idea I had related to default_flow_style (in PyYAML).
>
> Because YAML supports other object types on the same line, the colon
> is an ambiguous character. This means that when a human is editing a
> YAML document, they have to take care to quote any strings containing
> a colon, which introduces other issues.  For example:
>
> I want to encode the sentence "Beef: it's what's for dinner" under the
> 'doc' key.  This would end up as:
>
> doc: 'Beef: it''s what''s for dinner'
>
> The string is quoted, and you have to escape the quotes. This is
> because of the ambiguity cased by parsing:
>
> doc:
>        Beef: it's what's for dinner
>
> I think YAML could be changed so that the default behavior encouraged
> human editing over the compact form, without sacrificing the choice.
>
> What I propose is using a double colon to indicate the compact form.
> That way a human can type:
>
> doc: Beef: it's what's for dinner
>
> Which won't be confused with the second form, which becomes
>
> doc:: Beef: it's what's for dinner
>
> This way the user typing a sentence doesn't have to worry about the
> sentence content.  The user who is trying to encode a more complex
> object knows how to do so, and will use the double colon encoding...
>
> Douglas Mayle
>
>
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