From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2006-02-10T06:42:06+09:00
Subject: Re: How to improve this kind of API?

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Lyle Johnson wrote:

> 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. ;)

exactly right.

btw.  it's easy to figure out:


   harp:~ > ruby -r yaml -e' y "expand" => ["top_left", "top_right"], "foo" => "bar" '
   ---
   expand:
   - top_left
   - top_right
   foo: bar


cheers.

-a

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