Re: [Yaml-core] YACs Completed

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

On 07/01/02 10:34 +0200, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
> Brian Ingerson [mailto:in...@tt...] wrote:
> > > | leaves the following edge cases though. (Pretend '_' is a space):
> > > | 
> > > |     ---
> > > |     foo: \
> > > |     _______
> > > |         Paragraph begins here
> > > |     bar: \
> > > |     ____ 
> > > |     ________
> > > |     ...
> > > | 
> > > | What's the indentation level? 4 or 7.
> > > 
> > > Indentation in both examples is 1 since the
> > > first line lacks a non-whitespace character.
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
> > Oren, 
> > 
> > I just chatted with cce.
> > 
> > I'll go with using the first non-space one the first line as 
> > long as the
> > indentation defaults to '1' if the line has no non-space. 
> > Does this work for you?
> 
> The only thing I dislike about it is it causes me to look ahead all the way
> to the end of the line before I know what the second space is (content or
> indentation). Currently our syntax seems devoid of such beasts... And I'm
> enjoying it very much in my implementation :-) This isn't insurmountable,
> but it is a wart. Hmmm...
> 
> What is the down side of saying the indentation is at minimum 1 (if the line
> is all white spaces and too short), and is the whole line (if it is all
> white spaces and 'too long')? That is, 7 spaces for 'foo', and 4 spaces for
> 'bar'?

How about this...

We are proposing that the maximum indentation be 9 spaces (single
digit). So, if no explicit indentation is given, we scan the first 9
characters of the first line. If no non-space is found, the
indentation is '1'.

Cheers, Brian