From: Fritz Trapper <ajfrenzel@...>
Date: 2009-12-31T21:27:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Where to find a description of yaml for ruby?

Phillip Gawlowski wrote:
> But one thing is annoying with YAML: Significant whitespace. \t or a
> proper space have different meanings, as does the amount of space.

Thats really a bad issue. After reading docs on YAML, I decided to use 
it for plane data only, no structs or trees, as I wanted to.

> Ain't it grant that
> require "yaml"
> var = Object.to_yaml # or dump, if you want to write a file
> another_var = YAML.load var
> 
> makes it so very easy to use? And it can be read (not necessarily
> written) by humans, too.

Yes, that's very elegant and useful f端r simple configuration files.

> Try reading and writing XML in just one three lines! ;)

Reading complex data structures expressed in well formated XML is 
possible. Reading the same in YAML is at least quite difficult.
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