From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-06-08T02:47:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible YAML bug with quoted symbols?

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 02:21 +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> 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

That's wierd. I've seen this problem before (I switched to Marshal in
the end), and I still seem to get it now.

$ ruby -v -ryaml -e 'p YAML::Syck::VERSION'
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
"0.60"

$ ruby -r yaml -e' qs = YAML.load(YAML.dump(:"foo bar")); p qs; p qs.class '
:"\"foo bar\""
Symbol

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Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk