From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-05-17T00:51:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with yaml and lines beginning with a colon

Xavier wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> For some reason, yaml reads strings beginning with a colon as symbols
> which leads to 'cannot dup symbol' exceptions.
> 
> irb(main):003:0> YAML::load(":0 local".to_yaml)
> => :"0 local"

Just wanted to followup and say that this is fixed in CVS.  Symbol 
loading is much improved now.  Thankyou.

_why