[web-devel] RFC: Upcoming change in yaml parsing

[Michael Snoyman]

OK, new version is up on Hackage.

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com> wrote:
> 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