From: Xavier <NOSPAM@...>
Date: 2004-05-12T07:58:52+09:00
Subject: Problem with yaml and lines beginning with a colon

Hi all,

For some reason, yaml reads strings beginning with a colon as symbols
which leads to 'cannot dup symbol' exceptions.

 $ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.1 (2004-04-24) [i686-linux-gnu]

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'yaml'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> YAML::load(" :0 local".to_yaml)
=> " :0 local"
irb(main):003:0> YAML::load(":0 local".to_yaml)
=> :"0 local"

Note the first string has a leading space and the second has not. The
latter is not read back correctly.


Is this is a bug?
Does anyone know a workaround?

Thanks.