From: Ola Bini <Ola.Bini@...>
Date: 2006-06-08T00:41:55+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML booleans.

Ah!

Sorry for not checking the archives. It seems slightly unintuitive, as I
found out when I tried my version on this weeks Quiz.

/O

----- Original Message -----
From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@whytheluckystiff.net>
Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2006 4:52 pm
Subject: Re: YAML booleans.
To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org

> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 06:42:33PM +0900, Ola Bini wrote:
> > 
> > What I'm expecting (after looking at example 4.27 in the History 
> spec for 
> > YAML 1.0) is that both "a: y" and "a: n" should return the same 
> as "a: yes" 
> > and "a: no" respectively.
> > 
> 
> This should be brought up on Yaml-core.  (And has been before.)  
> The spec is 
> conflicting on this matter.  Compare examples 2.21 and 2.24.
> 
>  >> YAML::load("{x: 73, y: 129}")
>  => {'x' => 73, 'y' => 129}
> 
> Or should that be {'x' => 73, true => 129} ??  Too confusing.
> 
> They previously eliminated '+' and '-' on similar grounds.  Before 
> that, you
> could do:
> 
>  ---
>  true: (y)
>  false: (n)
>  ---
>  true: (+)
>  false: (-)
> 
> _why
> 
>