Re: [Haskell-cafe] A new yaml module

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.... -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net