From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-10-27T04:29:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Inline YAML in Ruby code - possible? converse?

gabriele renzi wrote:

> Its Me ha scritto:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> you have to patch ruby and recompile

You can also use the source code filter technique described in 
[ruby-talk:116822], but you would need to implement the syntax for 
yourself. The benefit of this is that it will not need a recompile of Ruby.