Re: [Yaml-core] Types, byte codes etc.

[Brad B. <bm...@ma...>]

On 5/5/07, Oren Ben-Kiki <or...@be...> wrote:

> We also discussed the concept of byte code representation for YAML. We
> had a thread about this in Sep 2003 which went in the direction of a
> specialized line-oriented format. However, Xitology has sold us on the
> notion of using the "canonical" format as a byte code.
>
> The idea is to start with JSON, insist that every token will be on its
> own line, and throw in the minimal number of features required to
> present anything YAML supports (that is: tags, anchors and aliases,
> directives, and '...'). The result would look something like:
>
>
>     {
>     "foo"
>     }
>     ...
>     {
>     !bar
>     "baz"
>     }



Small question: In this canonical format, how do you expect to treat
newlines that are in values, e.g.,

[
"Romeo
Juliet"
]

or

[
"Romeo\nJuliet"
]

-- 
Brad