RE: [Yaml-core] moving non-core types out of the core spec

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

Tom Sawyer wrote:
> don't see how that's going to fly. complex types are built on top of
> primitives. if all i have to work with are the primitives: !seq, !map
> and !str, how in the world am i going to make an !int ?

Answer: Look at Perl building integers from string.

> and actually its really kind of silly, b/c all implementors are going to
> use !int anyway. (thank god!) to pretend that !int isn't a primative
> type is just that, pretend.

Answer: Perl has no !int primitive type.

Have fun,

    Oren Ben-Kiki