RE: [Yaml-core] YAML URI scheme rough cut

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

I've been thinking about the shorthands used given the 'tag:' scheme and I
think we can cut down on their number. Specifically, we can use just the
following:

!!<whatever> => !x-private:<whatever>
!<lang>/<whatever> => !tag:yaml.org,2002:<lang>/<whatever>
!<scheme>:<whatever> => itself

This means that we'd be writing !*/str rather than !str (ducking the
tomatoes) hey, wait, stop a sec to consider this.

It is much simpler to specify, it is cleaner (three orthogonal cases) and
clearer ('*' for "all languages"). As for verbosity, the core type names are
very rarely used anyway (they are all default/implicit except for binary).
If one does use one explicity, terseness is out the window anyway. Thoughts?

Another point: Clark, you sent the IETF a suggestion for replacing ',' with
':'. I'm not certain they'll like that because, at least in the URN example,
the ':' is used to separate "authorities"/"spaces" etc. and here it is used
to pin one down in a persistant way. Perhaps they'll be more amenable to
using something else - I think ';' would be a good compromise:

tag:yaml.org;2002:*/str

Not that I'm optimistic about them changing their mind about ',' either
way... I guess that if/when our spec is updated, we'll have to go with ','
for now. Right?

Have fun,

    Oren Ben-Kiki