From: Hans Fugal <fugalh@...>
Date: 2007-08-03T00:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Deep YAML

Daniel Lucraft wrote:
> Hans Fugal wrote:
>> Daniel Lucraft wrote:
>>> # then try and dump it:
>>> deeptree.to_yaml       #=> fails with stack error
>>> refs.to_yaml           #=> fails with stack error
>>> refs.reverse.to_yaml   #=> succeeds!
>> I thought of this, ufortunately this data is more like a doubly-linked
>> tree. i.e. if you reverse it you still get the same behavior, just from
>> a different angle.
> 
> Because there are links going up the tree as well as down?
> 
> Dan

Yes, exactly. Links from parent to child, and also from child to parent 
(and from person to family and family to person).