Re: [Yaml-core] Namespaces - #8

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

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:34:06PM -0400, T. Onoma wrote:
| For the most part yes. While I though mixing the YAML tagspace and private 
| tagspace, would be nicer, I can certainly live with out it. I doubt I will 
| ever use !!, really. I have hardly ever used an explicit YAML tag anyway.

I'm sure loaders will help you 'configure' plain-scalar implicit typing
(via regex matches) in a way that uses the tags from the YAML Type Library. 

| One thing I kind of liked was being able to create a default prefix
| right from the root node:
| 
|   --- !artml.rubyforge.org:^
|   - !int

%TAG artyaml.rubyforge.org,2004:
---
- !square   # tag:artyaml.rubyforge.org,2004:square
- !!int     # tag:yaml.org,2002:int
...

| If I had this I would be inclined to have all my tags prefixed.
| But without it I'm more inclined to just have the root node guided
| and the remaing tags private. I'm leaning to the later, although
| sometimes I consider the former. We'll see. I still have to think
| about all this a little more.

Either style should work for you.  Thanks for bringing up this
mixing problem.  YAML is better for it.

Clark

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