Re: [Yaml-core] I tired of playing "shove the wart around"!

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

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 02:22:21AM -0400, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
|   - There _are_ two types of commonly used scalars:
|     the literal-character based string-scalar and the
|     implicit, content-evaluated symbolic-scalar.
| 
|        !str and !sym

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 02:33:43AM -0400, Clark C. Evans wrote:
| So, in this case, we are back with essentially working out _how_ we
| are going to report this difference.   The previous two options are:
| 
|  - We report four ?tags to the application,  ?mapping, ?sequence,
|    ?scalar-plain, ?scalar-other.  

I meant ?map ?seq ?str and ?var, sorry.  ?var is exactly ?sym

|  - We report three NULL tags to the application for the untagged
|    mapping, sequence, and non-plain scalar.  The plain scalar
|    is reported using the ! tag.

Or, ! is !sym, as a private type.

| The primary advantage of the latter one is that you can choose to
| only use double-quoted strings (necessary for my canonical form use
| case), since these two are equivalent: 
| 
|   - 23
|   - ! "23"
| 
| So, in effect, a plain scalar becomes syntax-short-hand 
| for using a ! private type.

Best,

Clark