RE: [Yaml-core] Interesting Indentations.

[Oren Ben-K. <or...@ri...>]

Jason Diamond [mailto:ja...@in...] wrote:
> I've been playing with my parser and have noticed that it's 
> possible to fold scalars in a way that makes it unintuitive
> for human readers but still pares able (at least according
> to the way I've implemented my parser).

Yes, that's the current state of affairs. It reflects a compromise between
making cut&paste easier and making the text more readable. This compromise
is still being worked out.

> [ Examples ]
> Are these correct?

Yes, they are (at least that was my intention in the new draft).

> If they are, could examples like these be 
> included in the
> draft? (I think more examples are needed overall, by the way.)

Good idea.

> Or, should it be required that all the successive lines of a 
> folded scalar
> be at the exact same indentation so that we never have to worry about
> encountering this kind of YAML?

I'd go with that - I think cut&paste is overrated. But the nature of a
compromise is that nobody is completely happy... Also note that the second
line of a multi-line simple scalar in a list *must* be more indented then
the first line:

   foo: @
     baz
       quux
     bar

I proposed we allow a leading ':' for the value in such a case, to make it:

   foo: @
     : baz
       quux
     bar
     :
       foo
       xuuq
     : etc.
     etc.

Have fun,

    Oren Ben-Kiki