On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Garth Dahlstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > 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.
I would not be opposed to YAML. Anything less crufty than XML... -Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
