From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-11-25T16:53:31+09:00
Subject: YAML question (hi _why!)

_why,

Just saw you post and was reminded to ask: How are we coming on a
"good" solution to my default values problem?

For those curious, what I want to do is establish defaults for
fields in an object, such that:

   1. When I dump an object, fields that still have the default
      values will be left unspecified.
   2. When I load an object, unspecified fields will be given their
      default values.

Right now I'm using an initialize_copy hack and some other stuff.

Something like this can greatly compress the YAML, I've found.
Very convenient when you read or hand-edit the file.


Cheers,
Hal