E. M. Bray

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At the moment I think the way this is implemented in the asdf package is not even entirely complete. Right now what it does ensure is round-tripping: If a file...

I think I originally added this to YAML Schema with good intentions, but it looks like it was never actually used in any of the ASDF schemas after all (except...

I think I always felt this didn't belong in the core standard, but didn't really say anything about it either since I knew it was important for ASDF's target use...

I obviously haven't kept up very recently with the state of ASDF, but where do schemas get installed to currently and how are they searched by the asdf library for...

Did we ever explicitly say this was supported, or was it just not explicitly unsupported before? I didn't even know (or forgot) that YAML itself supported this. I have a...

> I think we want to go for simplicity here. Agreed. I suppose as a middle ground it could still be supported in custom user data, but it definitely shouldn't...

Yeah, I wouldn't use a tag for this as in your first example that was like ``` tree: ! ``` but something more like your second example: ``` metadata: #...

If it's called capital-T Tree then we're claiming it's something other than a "tree" in the technical sense :)

I'll go out on a limb and say it's not even _that_ ugly. Much of how it's done makes some sense. I just don't think they should have used the...