On Tuesday-201001-05 19:48, David Golden wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Eric Wilhelm <enoba...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Given the constraint of bootstrap-ability, it seems like you should >> answer "Why not tsv?" before reaching for anything more complicated. > > Because META is already multi-dimensional and I don't want to find or > re-invent a wheel for representing multi-dimensional data in tsv. The > YAML/JSON debate is pretty much over as far as the META spec goes and > JSON wins. > > Thus, given the pending arrival of JSON into core for META, I see no
So you are saying screw the older Perl distributions? > reason not to use JSON for index information as well. The last thing > we need is for CPAN/CPANPLUS/Tool-X to all implement their own tsv > parsers and we don't already have one in core, do we? (I could be Yes, it's called <> and split(/\t/). > wrong there). > > This is such a stupid bikeshed conversation anyway. Wait until you see the color we chose. > David >
