Re: [Yaml-core] ordered collections and duplicate keys

[Steve H. <sh...@zi...>]

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From: "Tom Sawyer" <tra...@tr...>
> here's my proposal on ordered collections and duplicate keys:
>
>   http://wiki.yaml.org/yamlwiki/TomsMapSolution?action=show
>
> essentially i believe yaml should cover the fundemental possibilites,
> and do so elegently. otherwise you leave a large set use cases out in
> the cold. do we really want those users to go off and create ZAYML? ;-)
> i hope not, so lets just provide for their needs too!
>

I agree, the way to avoid outright forks of YAML is to make it flexible.  I
would go even one step beyond Tom in terms of flexibility:

http://wiki.yaml.org/yamlwiki/StevesOrderedKeySolution?action=show

The only essential difference in my proposal from Tom's is that you can hook
your own data structures into PyYaml.  (Not sure that Tom precludes this, but I
wanted to explicity state this in my proposal).

Clark will probably argue that PyYaml-enabled naughtiness is even more insidious
than the outright forks, such as Rolf's Java fork.  It's a tough call.

Cheers,

Steve