From: Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@...>
Date: 2006-02-10T05:46:14+09:00
Subject: Re: How to improve this kind of API?

On 2/9/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:

> indeed.  a symbols only api is evil - makes reading config info from
> files/yaml a pain....

<snip>

> which makes
>
>    splitter.configure(YAML::load(IO:;read('config.yml')))
>
> a one liner.
>
> if config.yml has
>
>    ---
>    expand : top_left
>    something : foobar
>
> in it.

How would one specify (especially in the YAML representation) that
both the "top_left" and "top_right" bits for "expand" should be set?
Would it look something like this:

    ---
    expand:
      - top_left
      -top_right
    something: foobar

I don't have as much exposure to YAML as I probably should. ;)