From: Swanand <swanand.blms@...>
Date: 2007-04-19T20:20:08+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML symbols

On Apr 19, 12:28 pm, eden li <eden...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Weird... which version of YAML are you using?  It doesn't generate !
> ruby/sym for me:
>
> $ ruby -v -r yaml -e 'puts({:name => "John", :yaml_version =>
> YAML::VERSION}.to_yaml)'
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux]
> ---
> :yaml_version: "0.60"
> :name: John
>
> On Apr 19, 2:20 pm, braver <delivera...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > YAML writes out Ruby symbols as !ruby/sym, e.g. :name => 'John'
> > becomes
>
> > !ruby/sym name: John
>
> > I write out megabytes of data, so I played with replacing !ruby/sym
> > with a simple colon:
>
> > :name: John
>
> > -- and it gets loaded back just as the !ruby/sym version!
>
> > Is there a way to instruct YAML to dump plain colon ':' instead of "!
> > ruby/sym "?  Is reading back my version a guaranteed behavior?
>
> > Cheers,
> > Alexy


Hi!
  Same here!  It is not placing ! in my case as well. As per the
YAML.rb documentation it should.