From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-09-09T16:25:13+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: MetaTags 1.0

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:25:58PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In message "Re: ANN: MetaTags 1.0"
> >     on 03/09/09, Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:
> >
> > |Much easier than I thought. I'll bet there are some gotchas,
> > |though.
> > |
> > |Matz??
> >
> > Yes?  It is hard for me to merge this, because
> >
> >   * it's no better than e.g. "y %{foo: bar}".
> >   * it's against my policy of "syntax should be stable".
> >
> > I agree with usefulness of user-defined literals, and this is much
> > disciplined than generic reader macros, but still we need to discuss
> > pros and cons.
> >
> > 							matz.
> 
> A thought occurred to me.  If %y{foo: bar} is seen as desirable as a short
> and simple way of declaring a YAML literal, what about this instead?
> 
>   YAML{foo: bar}

def Y(txt)
	YAML.load txt
end

Y %{bla: foo}
=> {"bla"=>"foo"}

OTOH this might scare people who think "... combinator" whenever they
see Y.

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