Re: [Yaml-core] musing "explicit" implicit typing

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On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 10:32:43PM +0000, Clark C . Evans wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:01:04PM -0700, Mike Orr wrote:
> | > Name: Steve
> | > Address: 12 Elm St.
> | > Zip: 21044
> | > Car: 1996 Altima
> | > Purchased: (1995-11-13 07:33:22)
> | > Mileage: (91235)
> | > Color: black
> | > Things I hate about by my car: [Damn brakes are going again!, Always dirty!]
> | 
> | Interesting idea and worth consideration, not that I 100% endorse it.
> | I'd rather quote numbers than strings.  
> 
> (private, but reply to list)
> 
> Mike, 
> 
> I don't get "I'd rather quote numbers than strings" ... where is
> the requirement to quote anywhere in this proposal?

I'm using quote in the general sense of "anything that goes around the
value, existing only to satisfy the syntax rules or to ensure the
correct type".  The () symbols around 91235 above.  "!!mx.DateTime" and
"#IMPLICIT=Purchased,Mileage" are also indirect ways to quote a value.

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