Re: New standard...

Well, I can understand that now is not the time to bring it up, as  
they're too close to release, but I hope to bring it up for the next  
version.  If for no other reason than I've been stung by mistakes  
while hand editing a string...

Douglas Mayle

On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Brad Baxter wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Douglas Mayle <[email protected]>  
> wrote:
> 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'
>
>
> As regards human editing, there are more than just the colon that
> a human must watch for.  I brought this up some time ago, starting
> here (if my email client doesn't mangle it):
>
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=yaml-core&style=nested&viewmonth=200603&viewday=27
>
> I confess I haven't studied recent changes to see if any of these
> observations are affected.  What about:
>
> doc = Beef: it's what's for dinner
>
> Sort of like ini files.
>
> I doubt that will fly, but it would sure be nice to have a good answer
> (besides using quotes).
>
> Regards,
>
> Brad
>

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