From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2005-09-09T14:01:31+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML.load hang-up

Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA wrote:

>Hello,
>
>YAML.load hangs with some string.
>
>examples:
>YAML.load('--- !')
>YAML.load('--- !!')
>YAML.load('--- !/')
>YAML.load('--- !//')
>YAML.load('--- !/foo/')
>YAML.load('--- !foo')
>YAML.load('--- !!null')
>YAML.load('--- !null')
>and so on.
>
Thankyou.  The new versions of Syck fix this.  I am merging right now 
into Ruby CVS.

irb(main):009:0> require 'yaml'
=> true
irb(main):010:0> YAML.load('--- !')
=> nil
irb(main):011:0> YAML.load('--- !!')
=> #<YAML::PrivateType:0xb7b4e8f0 @type_id="", @value="">
irb(main):012:0> YAML.load('--- !/')
=> #<YAML::DomainType:0xb7b4c8fc @domain="yaml.org,2002", @type_id="/", 
@value="">
irb(main):013:0> YAML.load('--- !//')
=> #<YAML::DomainType:0xb7b4a8a4 @domain="yaml.org,2002", @type_id="//", 
@value="">
irb(main):014:0> YAML.load('--- !/foo/')
=> #<YAML::DomainType:0xb7b48720 @domain="yaml.org,2002", 
@type_id="/foo/", @value="">
irb(main):015:0> YAML.load('--- !foo')
=> #<YAML::DomainType:0xb7b46664 @domain="yaml.org,2002", 
@type_id="foo", @value="">
irb(main):016:0> YAML.load('--- !!null')
=> #<YAML::PrivateType:0xb7b4451c @type_id="null", @value="">
irb(main):017:0> YAML.load('--- !null')
=> nil

_why