On Friday, 14 August 2015 at 15:11:41 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
And that would be possible here. JSON file format says nothing
about how the data is stored in your library. But again, not
important.
It isn't important since JSON is not too good as a config file
format, but it is important when considering other formats.
When you read a JSON file into Python or Javascript and write it
back all dictionary objects will be restructured. For instance,
when a tool reads a config file and removes attributes it is
desirable that removed attributes are commented out.
With JSON you would have to hack around it like this:
[ {fieldname1:value1}, {fieldname2:value2} ]
Which is ugly.
I think it would be nice if all D tooling standardized on YAML
and provided a convenient DOM for it. It is used quite a lot and
editors have support for it.
