Re: Example 6.23 and 6.24 in YAML 1.2 spec dated 2009-07-21

Oren Ben-Kiki <[email protected]> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:32:31 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.text.yaml.general
Message-ID	<1254288751.5043.40.camel@nero>

On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 04:05 +0900, Osamu TAKEUCHI wrote: 
> Dear the YAML spec writers,
> 
> Regarding to the YAML 1.2 spec dated 2009-07-21:
> 
> I think it is clearer to have separated rules for the block 
> collection with properties and that without properties.
> The following is my suggestion.
> 
> s-l+block-collection(n,c) ::= s-l+block-collection-with-properties(n,c)
>                             | s-l+block-collection-without-properties(n,c)
> 
> s-l+block-collection-with-properties(n,c) ::= 
>              ( s-separate(n+1,c) c-ns-properties(n+1,c) )?
>              s-l-comments
>              s-l+block-collection-without-properties(n,c)
> 
> s-l+block-collection-without-properties(n,c) ::= 
>                    l+block-sequence(seq-spaces(n,c)) 
>                  | l+block-mapping(n) 

That _arguably_ may be better - but at this point we are only fixing
errors (even if these of omission) and not continuing to re-polish the
spec. "All good things come to an end; so do the bad things" :-)

Thanks,

    Oren Ben-Kiki


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