On Jan 7, 2006, at 9:26 AM, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

>
> it seems this came up and nothing was resolved...

Just the opposite actually.  A late patch to 1.8.4 was allowed by  
Matz to resolve this issue:

Neo:~$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.3.0]
Neo:~$ ruby -r yaml -e 'y "a" => 42'
---
a: 42

1.8.3 is the only version with this oddity.

James Edward Gray II