Ovid wrote: > --- Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm not sure the YAML spec distinguishes between string and number >> when >> the string is a number. >> >> $ perl -e 'use YAML; warn YAML::Dump([3,"3"]);' >> --- >> - 3 >> - 3 >> $ perl -e 'use YAML::Syck; warn YAML::Syck::Dump([3,"3"]);' >> --- >> - 3 >> - 3 > > Ah, crud. Is this because YAML doesn't quote things without whitespace? > That really seems like a serious limitation to me. 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?
YAML has data types. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML#Data_Types Both implicit - 3 # integer - "3" # string - 123.0 # float And explicit - !!float 123 # float - !!str 123 # string It can even do binary and user defined data types. It's just that Perl, and almost everyone else in the universe, doesn't really care if you have a string 3 or a number 3. So you *can* dump out YAML with very detailed data types, but by default you don't because it's just redundant junk that gets in the way. -- Stabbing you in the face for your own good.
