Re: Yayson (proposal for a YAML presentation embedded within JSON for browser clients)
Ingy dot Net <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:48 AM, William Spitzak <[email protected]> wrote: > Ingy dot Net wrote: > > Right. The serialization needs to be 100% JSON. >> > > This means that any unquoted value in YAML, if the lack of quotes is used > to determine the default tag, must be tagged in the conversion. What I am > unclear on is when this is allowed, the YAML spec seems to skim over this > but it certainly is using unquoted to distinguish the 'null' from the > 4-letter string "null". Right, this is called "implicit typing" in YAML. Implicitly typing on quoted strings may be forced in YAML by using a single !. --- number: ! "42" I think we can do the same for JSYNC. because space sorts before '!'. The first printable chars are: > > <space> ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? @ > > I was thinking it would be nice if the JSYNCisms key sorted above the > normal keys. > I think I see but that would require all bytes < '.' to be dot-prefixed and > none above to require this. This would require all control characters and > double-quote to be dot-prefixed, despite the fact that they also need > backslash escape for JSON. And '+' and '-' despite the fact that they are > allowed in unquoted JSON. Also '(' would require it. And YAML has reserved > '@' for future use so it seems that should require a dot. > > So my feeling is that the short, but unfortunately non-contiguous set of > "!%&*@" are the only special prefix characters. > You are probably right. Let's start with that set. Cheers, Ingy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Yaml-core mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/yaml-core