From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-03-17T23:20:54+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Madeleine 0.1

On Monday 17 March 2003 06:54 am, Brian Candler wrote:
>
> Small suggestion: take class 'Marshal' as a parameter. Then you can choose
> a different Marshal-type class like 'YAML'. Although right now YAML is
> slow, this would give a language-independent database which you could even
> edit with 'vi' (great for data recovery). It might end up containing a lot
> of spaces, but it should gzip very well.

Brilliant.

> Note to WHY: please can we have a YAML::dump(object [,IO]) method, for
> symmetry with Marshal?

Yeah.  Will be in YAML.rb 0.60.

> P.S. Another note to WHY: the last line of YAML output doesn't seem to
> contain a trailing newline, which is just a slight nuisance.

Okay, fair enough.  I'll release YAML.rb 0.50 with this change, 0.60 as well.

_why