From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2006-06-08T07:48:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible YAML bug with quoted symbols?

On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 07:09:44AM +0900, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> > harp:~ > ruby --version
> > ruby 1.8.4 (2006-01-12) [i686-linux]
> >
> > harp:~ > ruby -r yaml -e'  p YAML.load(YAML.dump( :"foo bar" ))  '
> > :"foo bar"
> 
>   $ ruby -r yaml -ve 'p YAML.load(YAML.dump( :"foo bar" ))'
>   ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
>   :"\"foo bar\""

At the risk of accusing Ara of being ahead of the curve, a patch was committed
in January by ocean. [1]  I think Ara's got a branch snapshot.  Sounds like a
good time to bring up 1.8.5 on ruby-core again.

Thanks everyone!

_why

[1] http://rubyforge.org/tracker/func=detail&atid=1698&aid=2535&group_id=426