From: Phillip Gawlowski <pg@...>
Date: 2009-12-31T21:40:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Where to find a description of yaml for ruby?

On 31.12.2009 13:27, Fritz Trapper wrote:
> 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.

You probably meant "plain data"?

Stupid false friends...

Anyway: Yeah, significant whitespace is an issue. It's what keeps me 
looking at Python off and on (that, and the performance experience of 
two of the three Python apps I use is less than stellar).

>> 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.

Or simple data structures, like Hashes and Arrays, or Rails' test mock ups.

>> 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.

Well, I meant "reading and writing programmatically" :)

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Phillip Gawlowski