From: Iain 'Spoon' Truskett Date: 2003-03-19T15:09:12+09:00 Subject: Re: XML too hard (YAML opportunity?) * jbritt@ruby-doc.org (jbritt@ruby-doc.org) [19 Mar 2003 17:02]: [...] > For example, if I have > some_num: 23 > it's an integer. If later I decide that floats are better and want > change my code, don't the older data files have to be rewritten? No. Why? 23 == 23.0 Just different classes. Ruby's sufficiently flexible to not really care too much in most circumstances. cheers, -- Iain.