Re: [Haskell-cafe] A new yaml module

Hi, Am Montag, den 03.02.2014, 10:23 -0500 schrieb Brandon Allbery:

On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote: * There are problems with roundtripping, since YAML allows for ambiguity about the data type of values[2]. For example, in the yaml snippet `foo: 1234`, is 1234 intended to be numeric or a string? Either is valid.

YAML is a pretty accurate representation of Perl values, so this is inevitable. I'm left wondering if YAML is even appropriate for Haskell....

I’m left wondering if “is ... even appropriate for Haskell” is even appropriate. If the task to be solved is „Generate data in this particular format“, and picking the format is not part of the task, then we still want the language of our choice to be appropriate, don’t we? YAML may be an inappropriate choice of serialisation format if we are free to chose and there is only Haskell code involved. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0x4743206C Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org