John Napiorkowski wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting this feeling this debate is winding down > with the end of the weekend, but just some last two > cents; I would seriously prefer anything that is not > reliant on spaces, tabs or other semi-invisible > characters for syntax purposes. Well it's either that or tag clutter à la XML ... or a JSON/Data::Dumper-like format which nobody seems to like as far. It's true, whitespace can be a PITA if you're not aware of it being significant. OTOH, verbose syntax elements can also be annoying, both when reading and when writing (well, there's autocompletion, true) > Yes, you can set your > text editor to help smooth over this, but then I end > up setting up my editor differently for YAML verses > what I do for code. > Huh? So you don't indent your code? Or you absolutely must use tabs in your code? Well, either way, a serious editor can have different formatting configurations depending on filetype. > Also having whitespace characters used this way seems > very anti-perl. I know YAML was developed by perl > programmers first, but it really feels unnatural to > me. Reminds me of that summer where I had to write > everything in python :) > > Well, the "perl way" would be Data::Dumper + eval in a Safe compartment. It's indent insensitive, doesn't look like XML (which is my pet peeve regarding C::G) and instantly readable/writable if you know Perl.
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