From: Jim Crossley <jim@...>
Date: 2006-10-06T21:50:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Using configuration files (replacing shellscripts)

Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

[...]

> Is is possible to reduce the redundancy of
>
> ,----
> | basedir: /this/directory
> | logdir:  /this/directory/log
> `----
>
> to something like that?
>
> ,----
> | basedir: /this/directory
> | logdir:  $basedir/log
> `----

I'm not sure about that.  YAML has the concept of "aliases" and
"anchors" which are close to what you're asking for, but I'm not sure
it would be possible to concatenate an anchor with a plain string.
Perhaps someone more YAML-savvy will chime in.

Sorry,
Jim