Re: Equality of YAML nodes

Oren Ben-Kiki <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:32:12 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.text.yaml.general
Message-ID	<1254288732.5043.38.camel@nero>

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 10:46 +0900, Osamu TAKEUCHI wrote: 
> Thanks for your comments, BlueG.
> I revise my proposal for the equality definition of !!map, 
> !!seq and other YAML's standard collection nodes to be ...

Well, as long as we are agreed this is a change to the YAML spec, and a
pretty deep one at that, then this falls out of scope for YAML 1.2
(which is finalized other than errors/typos/etc.). It may be YAML 1.3 or
2.0 material.

Changing the definition of equality - making it "undefined" in some
cases - would have interesting implications and require a lot of careful
thought and work. I'd be happy to do it if this issue proves a problem
in practice... Though right now I'm swamped at work. It is hard for me
to find the time to collect the errata for the current spec, as you may
have noticed :-S

Have fun,

    Oren Ben-Kiki

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