Re: [Yaml-core] paths are strings too?

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

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 07:15:17PM -0700, Neil Watkiss wrote:
| >  - 3.45 JPY
| >  - 245,394.00 USD
| >  - 34303 EUR
| 
|    - 17000 MPH	# circumferencial speed of orbiting satellites
|    - 250 KPH	# my top speed
|    - 2000 sheep	# per capita in new zealand

Yes, I thought of these.  I wasn't really considering that the idea
above had wings.

| The '$' is better than the above. But, if you mean to encompass all the
| world's currencies, '$' is very North American.

Yes; $ is americentric, although it is the only ASCII marker for denomination.
And if it was followed by the ISO code is is quite clear, $JPY, for example.

| It may be better to just bite the bullet and say whatcha mean:
|
|    - !currency|euro 17000

Quite ugly, esp for a ballance sheet filled with numbers, etc.

Best,

Clark