Re: Question about type tags

Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:

> In general you can't force, or rely on, the order of the keys in the
> file. That is, in general someone may apply some tool to the file (say a
> pretty-printer) that will sort the keys alphabetically, or something,
> and then you'd be SOL. Using tags as in the previous example is the
> recommended way. Or, you may accept the overhead of creating the
> temporary structure.

Yes this is what I figured.

I am using the parser/emitter api to libyaml and I certainly do not want 
any temporary object, both because of the overhead and because it will 
throw errors in different than lexical order from the file.

> you _could_ mess up the file structure and do
> something like:
> 
> - a: { name: nameofa, a: value of a }
> - b: { name: nameofb, b: value of b }
> 
> But that's really just a dirtier form of tagging.

I guess that would work. It has the advantage that it works in json 
(though it looks ugly there), while if I use tags I will never be able 
to produce legit json.

Anyway I currently plan on using the tags.

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