On 19 Mar 2007, at 13:03, Adrian Howard wrote:
Nope. It's to add some simple YAML-ish output in places to help
clarify things. It's also a very small subset of YAML rather than
the full YAML spec.
See <http://perl-qa.yi.org/index.php/TAP_diagnostic_syntax>
Why not JSON? http://www.json.org
It's
a) Already implemented in a large number of libraries on a large
number of programming languages.
b) Has wider take up than YAML, or at least more mindshare in the
world, and when you're pushing a standard, mindshare is what you want.
c) Doesn't require a separate standard (where, defining a subset of
YAML does. It's probably not enough to just go with simple examples)
d) Still human readable and computer readable.
Mark.
