[Yaml-core] Thoughts about the reference mechanism

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

I propose to complicate the reference mechanism
as follows:

  An anchor node can be either numeric or
  alpha.  If the anchor is alpha, and the node
  is a map, then the anchor is the value of
  the key of the given type.  Aka...

     map: % &id
         id: 302
         name: Clark Evans
     ref: *302
         
  in addition to our current mechanism.  This
  will allow for the links to be done via 
  primary key, where the primary key is part
  of the data....

  Why?  Beacuse I'm serializing to/from a database
  all of the time, and my database already has 
  primary keys that are *data* and must be part
  of the information stream.  Yet, I'd like to 
  use these keys for YAML reference linking...  

Thoughts?

Clark