YAML::Tiny is intended to be compatible, where possible with YAML.pm and
YAML::Syck.
What do they do in the same situation?
This sounds like one of those things for which support will probably not be
added, and for which people should upgrade to a more-complete YAML library
to me, on initial impressions at least.
Adam K
On 02/09/07, via RT <bug-YAML-Tiny@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
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>
> Sat Sep 01 14:27:08 2007: Request 29105 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by OVID
> Queue: YAML-Tiny
> Subject: No distinction between integers and strings
> Broken in: 1.14
> Severity: Normal
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: OVID@cpan.org
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29105 >
>
>
> The following does not appear to be correct:
>
> $ perl -MYAML::Tiny=Dump -le 'print Dump([3,"3"])'
> ---
> - 3
> - 3
>
> For some Perl applications, it's important to know if you really have a
> number and not a string. The only pure-perl non-core way of dealing
> this that I know of is to steal some code from Pointer.pm (specifically,
> using unpack with the 'P' template. Nasty, but that's all I can come up
> with).
>
> Cheers,
> Ovid
>
