yaml forbids tabs, that alone is a good enough reason to love it :-) Barry
On Mar 14, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Jed Brown wrote: > I want to reiterate a statement I made a while back that any alternative > input format really needs to support references. This is a good reason to > prefer Yaml over JSON. Yaml is a superset of JSON, but offers a more readily > human-readable layout, example: http://www.yaml.org/start.html > > The important feature here is that references can be reused so it becomes > possible to define multiple solver configurations, then use each one (perhaps > with local modifications) in multiple places or not at all. If you just do > plain JSON, it's essentially the same expressiveness as current options > files, albeit easier to manipulate from other languages.
