RE: [Yaml-core] Last Minute Request

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

Brian Ingerson wrote:
> I'd like double quotes to be an implicit type for !text (minus the
> surrounding quotes). This would not imply escaping. It would just
> provide a human friendly method for defeating implicit typing in config
> file scenarios.

Actually we could easily allow escaping. Escaping the quote itself would not
be required. The only tricky part would be that '\ ' would mean "nothing"...
which isn't that bad I guess.

How about we have two: "escaped" and 'not escaped'? This are not new node
styles but simply two implicit transfer methods (I *love* the name transfer
method - see how it fits perfectly here?).

backslash n: '\n'
line feed: "\n"
this: "line\ 1\nline\
 2\nline
 3"
is same as: ||
 line1
 line2
 line 3

Anyone familiar with Perl or Shell would immediately recognize this idiom.

Thoughts?

Have fun,

    Oren Ben-Kiki