From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-01-12T00:48:45+09:00
Subject: Re: question about YAML over sockets

Ken wrote:
> As far as I can tell, YAML.load will not return until the sender closes
> the socket. Is this true? If true, is this desirable?
> 

If you need to have YAML.load return before you've closed the socket, 
send a pause indicator "\n...\n".  YAML.load will return and you can 
read further documents from the same IO.

_why