Re: [Yaml-core] Brian's Take

[Brian I. <in...@tt...>]

On 24/10/01 23:38 -0400, Clark C . Evans wrote:
> | There are still other things I want to talk about like:
> | 
> | things:
> |     A: implicit types
> |     B: special keys
> |     C: starting productions
> |     D: production separation
> |     E: indentation characters (tabs anybody?)
> |     F: round-tripping comments
> |     G: throw-away comments 
> |     H: DWIM modes
> |     I: preprocessors/filters
> |     J: YAML standard library (MIME etc)
> 
> For implicit types ::
> 
>     My initial thoughts is that this only works
>     with one-line, non-quoted scalars.  There should
>     be a registry with the REGEX for the implicit
>     type and if it matches, the type is set.  
> 
>     The open issue is if this REGEX list is a singleton
>     (on the yaml.org site) or if it can be local.  If
>     it is local, then portability suffers as two vendors
>     may have a two different types for the same regex;
>     or worse, overlapping regex.  In this case, yaml
>     fragments from both vendors can't be mixed.  This
>     would greatly hurt YAML.  Thus, IMHO, the REGEX
>     list should be a singelton and published in a spec.

I agree with all of this. Oren?

> 
> For the others ::
> 
>     I'm interested to hear what you say!

Stay tuned then...

> 
> Clark
> 
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