On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:36:15PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * Michael Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-18 15:30]: > > YAML does support things that JSON does not (types, embedded > > documents, etc) but I've been in doubt that we'd ever need > > those things for TAP anyway. > That would be useful if any of the YAML producers were capable of > serialising tricky data structures correctly. If you care about > those kinds of things, you probably want to use a language-specific > serialiser and put its output in the TAP diagnostic as a string.
I fear that this is how human-readability ends; not with a bang, but with a whimper. Aren't these two separate concerns, human versus machine readability? The latter rarely respects ambiguity. -- c
