From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-03-19T23:56:56+09:00
Subject: Re: XML too hard (YAML opportunity?)

On Wednesday 19 March 2003 07:47 am, jbritt@ruby-doc.org wrote:
>
> In most of my use cases, yes.  If I want typing info, it's
> easy enough to add when and where I want it.  I prefer it
> to be an option, not a requirement.
>

Typing is an option.  Think of typing information as metadata provided to the 
loader, indicating how a node should be loaded.  As YAML loaders improve and 
move forward, you'll see the ability to change typing on nodes based on YPath 
expressions and schemas.  Typing "when and where" you want it.

_why