[tap-l] YAML?

[Andy Armstrong]

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