From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-05-14T02:42:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby<->Perl and syck-0.25 problem

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 11:34 am, Tom Payne wrote:
>
> You need to:
>   require "syck"
> not, "yaml".
>
> Then change your code:
>   object = YAML.load(whatever)
> becomes
>   parser = YAML::Syck::Parser.new({})
>   object = parser.load(whatever)
>

Actually, no longer the case with newer versions.  YAML.rb will leverage Syck 
if it is available.  Either of the above will work.

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