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If I have a YAML file like

--- 
2.1: my product version

without any quotation marks, Ruby will treat the 2.1 as a Float (at least under Syck - I'm not sure about Psych).

Are there any risks in using a Float as a hash's key, so long as all of the other occurences of the key are either from a YAML file or literals from Ruby?

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  • A version "number" is not actually a floating point number or even a number of any kind, it is more like sequence of integers ([2,1,11]) that is written in a peculiar way (2.1.11). So the problem behind the question is moot :)
    – mu is too short
    Jan 3, 2012 at 6:17
  • @muistooshort: My question is can I be lazy and not use quotation marks to escape it or not.
    – Andrew Grimm
    Jan 3, 2012 at 6:57
  • I haven't tried it with Hash, but it causes problems with RBTree (at least with Psych): '@9.884112959068247e-09' is not allowed as an instance variable name
    – Translunar
    Sep 28, 2013 at 23:28

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