[sml-dev] Re: [Yaml-core] More IRC

[Clark C . E. <cc...@cl...>]

| We have a new YAC, #7: Rename 'implicit' to 'simple'. Because not all simple
| leafs are implicitly types; they may be explicitly typed. And other leafs
| may be implicitly typed using a '!' transfer property.

Right.  Although like 'plain' better for this type... but
that leaves us without a word for the 'folded' scalar.  
 
| We'll do a YAC-list HTML page to keep track of issues. Place it and the spec
| under CVS control so we can do small changes easily (assuming changes from
| now on will be small).

Right.

| YAC#3.2 is what we agreed upon for URIs.
|     !type:java/tld.domain|Type
|     !java/tld.domain|Type

Where the latter is an abbreviation for the former.

| This is tricky for Perl, because we don'y have a package. I guess we'll
|
|     !perl/|%Net::Ftp
|
| Unless we want to write:
| 
|     !perl/cpan|%Net::Ftp
| 
| Or best of all (IMO):
| 
|     !perl/Net|%Ftp
| 
| Brian's call... Brian?

I thought we had also agreed that !perl|xxx is short
for !type:perl|xxx -- the slash can be optional, no?

| !seq is shorthand for !type:any/org.yaml|seq
| and !tld.domain|type is !type:any/tld.domain|type
| so everything is a URI and all we have is a
| defaulting mechanism for URIs.

Right.  And since tld.domain has a period,
the !perl|xxx style short hand can be 
assigned as well.

| We'll be using ';' for format.

Right.

| YAC#6.1 gained some favor:
| 
| - key1: value1
|   key2: value2
| 
| Is equal to:
| 
| -
|  key1: value1
|  key2: value2
| 
| This is an error:
| 
| - key1: value1
|  key2: value2
| 
| This is a sub list:
| 
| - top key:
|    sub key: sub value
| 
| Typing is of a key:
| 
| - !key-type key: value
| - !map-type
|  key: value
| 
| The use case is "list of maps" (it looks even better with a single key/pair
| value). The use case is common (our invoice example has an instance).
| 
| Clark will go with it, but he thinks its ugly (he likes the empty '-' lines,
| believe it or not :-). I'd rather keep it in, but won't make too much of a
| fuss about it. So, Brian, the ball is in your court...

It's ugly, but it'll work for me.

Best,

Clark

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