From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2006-07-10T16:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshal's handling of floats

Brian Palmer <rubytalk@brian.codekitchen.net> wrote:
> Hi Ara,
>
> The 'g' and 'G' flags for Array#pack/String#unpack are in network
> byte order, so they're in a platform-independent format, as far as I
> know. I actually tested this by Packing a couple thousand floats on
> my Mac, sending them in UDP packets and unpacking them on my AMD64
> desktop, they all came across correctly.

Yeah, but I still see serious drawbacks of your proposal:

 - it will break existing code (YAML data)

 - it's not human readable which is one of the key advantages (YAML files 
seem to be frequently written by hand as a nice user interface to config 
data)

 - it's not portable and it might not be compliant with YAML spec

In sum all these are serious showstoppers for a general change of YAML 
behavior.

Another solution - if you want to make use of this: AFAIK you can customize 
YAMLfication of classes.  If that was true, you can pretty easily perform 
the conversion during to conversion to and from YAML.  That would be the way 
to go IMHO.

Kind regards

    robert