RE: [Yaml-core] almost there

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

Clark C . Evans [mailto:cc...@cl...] wrote:
> Comments:
> 
>      - Do !map and !seq in-line forms do implicit
>        typing on their contents... they should.

Hmmm. I see why you'd want it. Note this means that a transfer method has
the power to recursively invoke the "implicit transfer" mechanism, which in
turns invokes other transfer methods - so this complicates the APIs. I guess
it makes sense to allow for it... I'm (gulp) OK with adding it.

YADN (Yet Another Disruptive Noise :-): Time keys are ugly.

? \
 14:30
: Meeting

Quoting the key doesn't help (because quoted scalars are a form of plain
scalar).

Alternatives:

- Keep it that way.

Plus: no work.
Minus: keys with ':' (such as dates) would look ugly.

- Make quoted keys a full-blown scalar style.

Plus: allows the most general form of in-line keys.
Minus: complicates spec(?)

- Exchange ':' and '=':

Example:

map =
 key = value
 14:30 = meeting
 ptr = !ptr
  := value

Plus =
 - using '=' is the way people write configuration files today.
 - Using '=' looks better for scalar values.
 - ':= value' for default value of a map is much better compared to '=:'
which we have today.
 - Plain scalar keys are less likely to contain '=' than ':'.
Minus =
 - Using ':' looks better for collection values.
 - We got used to ':' ...

Thoughts?

Have fun,

	Oren Ben-Kiki