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date: "2003-12-03T17:39:57Z"
title: 'Re: News'
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<p>
From <a href='http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/1854'>this message</a> on <a href='http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-core/index.shtml'><code>ruby-core</code></a>:
</p>
<blockquote
cite='http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/1854'>
<pre>
&gt;$ cat ybug.rb
&gt;YAML.load( (0..1029).map {|n| { "x" =&gt; "z", "y" =&gt; n } } .to_yaml)
&gt;$ /usr/local/lib/ruby-cvs/bin/ruby -v -r yaml ybug.rb
&gt;ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-01) [i686-linux]
&gt;/usr/local/lib/ruby-cvs/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:39:in `load': parse error
&gt;on line 666,

ok...so this line number thing is freaking me out.  Are you saying that
YAML is the
beast spoken of in Revelations ;-)
</pre>
</blockquote>

<p>
Note: I fixed his mangled spelling of "Revelations".
</p>