From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2004-03-31T02:31:35+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML and initializers

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 11:29, why the lucky stiff wrote:
> Hal Fulton wrote:
> > 
> > Other questions...
> > 
> > 1. Have you given any thought to preserving comments in  yaml files?
> > E.g., I read in an entire file, modify some stuff, and write it out
> > again -- any practical way to keep the comments?
> 
> Okay, yeah.  It's one of those things I'd like to have, but there hasn't 
> been a big demand for it.  Truly: I'm not too excited about coding it 
> in.  But I could really use it as well.

Let me add my name to the list of people interrested in this feature.
OTOH, I do understand your lack of excitment to tackle it.

Guillaume.

> 
> > 2. I wish for a little more control over formatting. Possible?
> >    a. Specify order of fields instead of alphabetic
> >    b. Align field names and data in a "prettyprinted" way
> 
> Specifying field order is a cinch.
> 
>    class MyClass
>      def to_yaml_properties
>        ['@gamma', '@beta', '@alpha']
>      end
>    end
> 
> See the 'Type Families'[1] section in the docs for the low down on 
> customizing loading and emitting further.
> 
> As for 2b, give me another day and I'll 'splain about how to lay things 
> out with perfect daintiness.  Just takes a minute to detail.
> 
> _why
> 
> [1] http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/doc/page/type_families.htm
> 
>