From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-03-10T06:44:41+09:00
Subject: Re: bizare yaml values

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Carlos wrote:

> ["Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@fattire.ngdc.noaa.gov>, 2004-03-09 15.34 CET]
> >   gll:
> >     ...
> >     limits: &id001
> >     ...
> >   ...
> 
> This is an anchor ('limits:' should have the array description, too,
> probably below). A reference to 'limits' can be made later with '*id001'.

yes - i see both but never the data.  i've gotten around it by taking a #dup,
but this sounds like it may be a bug eh?

  - i can print the variable
  - inspect can see it
  - pp can see it
  - marshal can see it
  - yaml can't

-a
> 
> See http://www.yaml.org/refcard.html
> 
> and
> 
> http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/cookbook/#aliases_and_anchors .
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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