Quoting Ken Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why in the world would you be required to write a parser??
Because I possibly would want to read these files automatically? Your original posting explicitly stated that this is just what they are made for. > I do appreciate your point of view, but I can also tell you that for > every person that asks why we're not using XML for this, there's > another person who's written me telling me how glad he/she is that > we're not. I absolutely believe that. The difference is, that in 2 or 3 years, when an XML parser (however "wierd") will be installed on any uptodate Perl system, noone will ask "Why are we using XML and not YAML?". In the contrary case the question will stick forever, because you have a lot of users as stupid as me. It doesn't take much prophecy to foresee that. Jochen
