# from Ovid
# on Saturday 01 September 2007 11:51 am:
>Ah, crud. Is this because YAML doesn't quote things without
> whitespace?
Or because it is representing numbers as text?
> That really seems like a serious limitation to me.
Why?
> Can I
> really keep a straight face and tell a C programmer that the "Test
> Anything Protocol" deliberately chose a serialization language that
> ignores data types?
That depends on the punchline.
Are you planning to write a TAP consumer in C? Do you have a use-case
where a producer (and consumer) needs to distinguish between int and
float in the diagnostics?
--Eric
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