Re: [Yaml-core] encoding sequences of sequences?

[Brian I. <in...@tt...>]

On 02/01/03 04:19 -0800, Rich Morin wrote:
> In Perl, this would look something like:
> 
>    [ 'implies',
>      [ 'and',
>        [ 'isa', '?TRANSFER', 'TransferringPossession' ],
>        [ 'fromPossessor', '?TRANSFER', '?FROM' ] ],
>      [ 'isa', '?FROM', 'SocialBeing' ] ]
> 
> but I'd like to be able to encode it using only dashes and indentation
> 
> How _should_ these be written?

Let the computer (read Dumper) do the work. If you know Perl, you
probably have YAML.pm. If you have YAML.pm you must have ysh.

    (macingy) ingy /Users/ingy 
    > ysh
    Welcome to the YAML Test Shell. Type ':help' for more information.

    ysh > ;
    perl>    [ 'implies',   
    perl>      [ 'and',
    perl>        [ 'isa', '?TRANSFER', 'TransferringPossession' ],
    perl>        [ 'fromPossessor', '?TRANSFER', '?FROM' ] ],
    perl>      [ 'isa', '?FROM', 'SocialBeing' ] ]
    perl> ;
    ---
    - implies
    -
      - and
      -
        - isa
        - ?TRANSFER
        - TransferringPossession
      -
        - fromPossessor
        - ?TRANSFER
        - ?FROM
    -
      - isa
      - ?FROM
      - SocialBeing
    ysh > 

Easy, no?

Cheers, Brian