Hrm...  Just reading up on wikipedia about YAML, I quite like what I
see so far.

In a way it reminds me more of wiki mark-up then anything else and I
could see the relational ability to do value referencing and
inhertience could prove quite useful in some situations.


On 28/01/2009, Ben Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:18:48AM -0800, Mark Glines wrote:
>> > serializing data structures as `eval'able code (something that's quite
>> > in vogue in the Perl world, and I regard as Pure Evil.)
>>
>> Actually, I think YAML is more popular in the Perl world these days.
>
> YAML is what I tell people they should be using instead of Data::Dumper
> and eval.
>
>> For a simple list of config items, its about as easy to read/edit as an
>> .ini file would be.  More complex data structures are also possible, and
>> they look a heck of a lot nicer than XML does (in my opinion).
>
> Agreed. It's about as intuitive and self-documenting as any
> comprehensive format I've seen.
>
> Ben
>
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