--- demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If string data was *always* quoted and numeric data never was > (assuming > > it's really numeric), then most of the issues raised in this thread > > would go away. > > Define string data and numeric data. :-) > > IOW, is 0E0 string or numeric?
This can be tricky to determine in a dynamic language. This is easy to determine in Java. I would argue that for dynamic language practitioners, we can ignore the distinction but the YAML output should *not* ignore that distinction. We should have a single TAP YAML diagnostic standard so that we have less concern about interoperability issues. Admittedly, not too many here seem worried about that so maybe it's a minor issue but when I work on exchanging data between static and dynamic languages, I keep getting bit by related issues. And I have no idea if 0E0 should be string or numeric :) Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
