On 20 Mar 2007, at 00:12, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Why not JSON? http://www.json.org
Good question. The rationale seems to have been lost in the wiki
move.
Here's the restored rationale.
http://testanything.org/wiki/index.php/YAMLish#Why_not_JSON.3F
Of course the idea of the YAMLish dialect negates this one somewhat:
"JSON is, effectively, a subset of YAML. If your producer emits
JSON then a YAML parser will
read it. The inverse is not true."
I'm still in favour of YAMLish on largely aesthetic grounds but I
have to say that I don't think any of the objections to JSON are
overwhelming.
If we /were/ going to allow JSON now would be the time to do it.
--
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
