From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-12-13T03:33:11+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML treatment of '#' character in middle of a string

Treatment of the comment character has long been discussed on the yaml-core 
list and has changed a bit in the spec over this year.  Currently, any pound 
character which is preceded by space trims to the next newline as a comment.  
Yes, quotes can overcome this weakness.

  ---
  plain: one #this is a comment
  quoted: 'one # this is not a comment'
  also plain: one#this is not a comment
  and also: one# this is also not a comment

I do agree with the rule.  I can see compelling reasons to follow plain 
scalars with descriptive comments.  I don't see the compelling reason for the 
space-pound in plain scalars.  But if you have a good use case, hop on 
yaml-core ML and lay it out for us, Brother Black.

_why

On Thursday 11 December 2003 05:11 pm, David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'm wondering whether the "#" and everything after it are
> really supposed to be taken out of the string in this
> example:
>
>   irb(main):015:0> YAML.load("---\nstring: one # two")
>   => {"string"=>"one"}
>
> I guess I can wrap it all in quotation marks, but I didn't
> think I had to.
>
>
> david