Re: 1.2 Specification Wording

Oren,


Thank you for your quick response. I've gone over the version from the link
you gave me and it does indeed fix this. I also see that several parts that
I found confusing in the older version have been revised and are much
clearer now. I haven't looked through all of the production rules in the
newer version. I'm looking forward to doing so tomorrow (err... today...
after I've slept =p); I'm getting close in my project now to where I'll have
to make sure I completely understand them. The schemas are a nice addition
to the 1.2 specification.


Thank you again,

Blue G.


P.S. Sorry, Oren. I hit reply instead of forwarding the message, so you've
been copied twice.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Oren Ben-Kiki [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 10:41 PM
To: BlueGM
Subject: Re: [Yaml-core] 1.2 Specification Wording

You can access the latest version we are fixing the issues in
http://yaml.github.com/yaml-spec/ (Actually we have some git issues so it
isn't 100% absolutely latest but it does contain a lot of tiny fizes
already).
At any rate, as for 10.2., this contains the phrasing:

Scalars with the "?" non-specific tag (that is, plain scalars) are matched
with a list of regular expressions (first match wins, e.g. 0 is resolved as
!!int). In principle, JSON files should not contain any scalars ***that do
not match at least one of these***. Hence the YAML processor should consider
them to be an error.

A small correction, but a vital one :-)

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 12:07 -0400, BlueGM wrote:
> To the authors of the 1.2 specification:
> 
> I've gone over the specification numerous times lately, and there is a 
> part of section 10.2.2 that confuses me.
> 
> Section 10.2.2 Resolution (of the JSON Schema) has the following 
> lines, "Scalars with the "?" non-specific tag (that is, plain scalars) 
> are matched with a set of regular expressions. In principle, JSON 
> files should not contain any such scalars. Hence the YAML processor 
> should consider them to be an error."
> 
> Given that JSON has a number of "plain scalars" (unquoted values) to 
> support booleans, integers, and floats,...



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