On Oct 14, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Kenneth McDonald wrote: > > On Oct 14, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Frederic Camblor wrote: > >> Hi Kenneth ! >> >> Drawback of using a Python/YAML like solution is code completion. >> > But the payoff is you don't need code completion! You just put in a )/}/] or > so, and your code is completed! Any yes, any competent text editor can check > for braces mismatches etc. > > I recognize the concern, I just don't see it as valid. I've been programming > in Python for twenty years now. I won't say it's always the case, but in a > large number of cases, the terseness you gain in your code more than offsets > things like code completion, static analysis, etc. > > And yes, I specifically intend this to apply to XML. I can't see how moving > to a YAML model would be anything but a win for maven. >
http://github.com/sonatype/polyglot-maven/blob/master/pmaven-yaml/src/test/resources/pom.config.yml Already works with Maven's current core. Along with Scala, Clojure, and Ruby. A fact to note though is that I've asked over 2k people over the last two years at talks and in any average crowd the people who care to have a different format or DSL is around 3%. At any rate anything is possible with Maven 3. > Just to let you know I'm not firmly entrenched in one camp, the static > analysis that Scala supplies seems to me to overcome the inherit "benefits" > of dynamic analysis. > > Ken > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if i have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. -- Buddha
