From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-06-08T02:21:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible YAML bug with quoted symbols?

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Dave Baldwin wrote:

> If I have a quoted symbol, i.e. :'some symbol' then when I dump the YAML for
> it and then load the results I don't get back the symbol I put in, but get an
> extra set of escaped quotes.   The following irb session shows this:

i don't see the problem:


   harp:~ > ruby -r yaml -e' qs = YAML.load(YAML.dump(:"foo bar")); p qs; p qs.class; p VERSION '
   :"foo bar"
   Symbol
   "1.8.4"


you are just confusing yourself with irb/inspect

> irb(main):014:0> YAML.dump(:'some symbol')
> => "--- :\"some symbol\"\n"
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      this is the output of String.inspect - not the literal string


try

   harp:~ > irb -r yaml
   irb(main):001:0> dumped = YAML.dump(:'some symbol')
   => "--- :\"some symbol\"\n"
   irb(main):002:0> YAML.load dumped
   => :"some symbol"
   irb(main):003:0> YAML.load(dumped).class
   => Symbol


regards.

-a
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