From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-12-16T03:05:51+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML treatment of '#' character in middle of a string

Yeah, that bug was fixed a few hours after you reported it.  Checked into Ruby 
CVS.  I could have sworn I responded, but I must have .. got distracted.  

Got a fix for this bug, too.  Testing it out just now.

_why

On Saturday 13 December 2003 01:32 pm, Dave Thomas wrote:
>
> As it stands right now, though, yaml can't read it's own output, which
> strikes me as a fairly major issue;
>
>    require 'yaml'
>    fred = "Call the method #dave"
>    str = YAML.dump(fred)
>    fred1 = YAML.load(str)
>    puts fred1     # => 'Call the method '
>
> For me, this, combined with the stuct bug I mentioned over on -core,
> makes YAML unusable for my RI work. At the very least, shouldn't ::dump
> escape the output?
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave