From: jbritt@...
Date: 2003-03-19T15:33:09+09:00
Subject: Re: XML too hard (YAML opportunity?)

> 23 == 23.0
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> Just different classes. Ruby's sufficiently flexible to not
> really care too much in most circumstances.

Isn't this a feature, then, of Ruby, not YAML?  If I tried this in
say, Java, wouldn't I have a problem?

I gave a fairly simple example.  Ruby might be less forgiving if I
switched from an Array to a Hash.

I don't want to belabor this; clearly I need to play around more YAML, but
the notion of coupling application logic ("treat this text as a Hash") with
data bothers me.


James

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> Iain.
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