Re: [Yaml-core] unknown value for scalar

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

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 08:26:57PM -0700, Donnal Walter wrote:
| In the case where it might be desirable to have a key for a scalar
| that is currently unknown, is the following illegal?
| 
| name:
|     first: Donnal
|     middle:
|     last: Walter

If you wanted to express a blank string, you should use ''

name: 
   first: Donnal
   middle: ''
   last: Walter

| 
| Is this a better way?
| 
| name:
|     first: Donnal
|     middle: ~
|     last: Walter

In Python, ~ translates to None; for SQL it'd be NULL, which
is distinctly different from an empty string.

;) Clark

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