Re: [Yaml-core] private and public types

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

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 07:14:03AM +0000, sh...@zi... wrote:
| PRIVATE TYPES
| 
| For folks that don't have interoperability concerns, we need 
| a way to mark types.  Basically, private types allow you to 
| attach metadata to parts of your YAML.  Typically, the private 
| type would correspond to a "class" in the programming language, 
| but other uses may be derived.  Implementations must respect 
| the "!!" marker for private types and provide YAML callers hooks 
| to manipulate/specify types as needed.  Implementations for 
| languages with good introspection capabilities (e.g. Perl, Ruby, 
| Python, etc.) will provide good "default" methods for mapping 
| between YAML types and programming language classes.

Agreed.  And I'm proposing that to keep all type-family's URIs,
private type !whatever is mapped to ($scheme)yaml.org/private/whatever
where $(scheme) is the scheme we choose; I'm proposing "urn:dns:"
instead of "http://" since "urn:dns:" doesn't imply that a http
retrievable resouce must exist.   In this way a type family *is* 
a URI, complete with semantics.

Best,

Clark

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