Re: [Yaml-core] A little introduction to reasons behind whitespace choices

[boots <jay...@ya...>]

Thank-you for your reply. I was hesistant to bring it up at all since I
figured it was a touchy subject. Still, I need to understand the
rationale behind the specification because I find it to be the least
approachable portion of Yaml.

In particular, it seems to play havac with the idea of checksums. It
appears that there is no gaurauntee that two identical deserialized
streams are derived from the same serialized text. Symmetrical reverse
transforms look unlikely. But I'm probably missing something important,
so I will read the references and meditate on the subject some more --
I hope I didn't cause any undue stress here ;)

Om.

xo boots

--- Brian Ingerson <in...@tt...> wrote:
> On 15/05/03 11:04 -0700, boots wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I'm new to YAML and am very excited about its possibilities. One
> thing
> > that I am trying to wrap my head around is the whitespacing choices
> > that the designers took. I read the spec and found its discussion
> on
> > the matter a little unsatisfactory. I realize I probably missed all
> the
> > important discussion on this topic and I was hoping that a friendly
> > soul on this list might point me to the relevant posts.
> 
> YAML uses only spaces for indentation. No tabs allowed. There were
> months of discussion about this long ago. YAML's whitespace issues
> were
> much more problematic than Python. All attempts to incorporate tabs
> cleanly, fell apart.
> 
> There is an incomplete discussion of whitespace issues here. 
> 
>     http://yaml.freepan.org/index.cgi?TabsAndSpaces
> 
> Feel free to add to it. But I think most of us in the YAML community
> would rather polish our teeth with a disk sander than rehash these
> issues.
> 
> Cheers, Brian
> 
> 
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