From: Its Me <itsme213@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T01:09:04+09:00
Subject: Inline YAML in Ruby code - possible? converse?

I recall an old post by Why which described some way to inline chunks of
YAML right into Ruby code. Could not locate it in Google. Roughly like

def foo
  a = %y
    r: abc
    s: pqr
    t:  - 1
        - 2
        - 3
    %y
  return a
end

Does anyone have the details, and what to include to enable this processing?

Conversely, is there any way to include Ruby code inline in YAML? Could "!!"
be faked out to accomplish this?

And lastly, could YAML be used in a re-entrant way e.g. could the code
processing a private type !! in the middle of a YAML::load in turn make a
nested call to YAML::load?

Thanks!