24 May
2012
24 May
'12
4:04 p.m.
Hi all, Before releasing to Hackage, I wanted to see if anyone has objections to an upcoming change in the yaml library. The issue[1] is that values that can be parsed as numbers are currently treated as numbers, even if they're quoted. The change will instead treat any quoted value as a string, and only unquoted values will be parsed. In other words: Currently: decode "'1234'" == Number 1234 Changed: decode "'1234'" == String 1234 (Note the single quotes inside the double quotes.) This will cause a small change in semantics, and in theory could break people's code, though frankly I think the current behavior is a bug. If people have objections to the change, let me know. Michael [1] https://github.com/snoyberg/yaml/issues/8