On Mon, 17 May 2004 00:51:59 +0900, why the lucky stiff wrote:

> Xavier wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> For some reason, yaml reads strings beginning with a colon as symbols
>> which leads to 'cannot dup symbol' exceptions.
>> 
>> irb(main):003:0> YAML::load(":0 local".to_yaml)
>> => :"0 local"
> 
> Just wanted to followup and say that this is fixed in CVS.  Symbol 
> loading is much improved now.  Thankyou.
> 
> _why

Good news.
Thanks for the info.