Re: [Yaml-core] ! HELP (was: Quotes as escape, not typing)

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

On Monday 13 September 2004 23:15, trans.  (T. Onoma) wrote:
> > Can anyone give an example of an application he already has, is
> > considering of writing, or he heard someone wanting to write, where
> > he'd actually have to use the "do-not-dwim" !! tag a lot?
>
> I presented one. Don't think I have any others that requires it much
> though.

Actually, I understand Why uses implicit typing alot in Ruby. Since Ruby 
implicitly types almost anything as a non-string :-), it seems he (and 
presumably the typical Ruby user) is using quotes a lot to force 
scalars to be strings, and will therefore need a lot of !!. Why, is 
that correct?

If it turns out that the !! would be used "often", I suppose we'll have 
to abandon the "no distinction" proposal. By second choice is the 
"default strings" proposal.

Have fun,

	Oren Ben-Kiki