Re: YAML

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:07:13PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> Not everything is sanely convertible into some sort of plugin. A plugin
>>> mechanism for this would be FAR more trouble that it is worth, IMNSHO.
>>>
>>> We are massively over-egging this pudding (as a culinary blogger you
>>> should appreciate this analogy).
>>>     
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>> OK, then let's just accept it.  It's small, has a maintainer, is useful
>> to some people, and doesn't create any wierd complications.  I think,
>> given the knowledge that YAML is now a subdialect of JSON it could
>> potentially be made smaller, but I can't say how at the moment.
>
> Actually, it's the other way, JSON is a subset of YAML.

I've no contribution to the main topic, but I'd like to point out that
the "JSON is a subset of YAML" meme is not without controversy:

  http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/JSON-XS-2.26/XS.pm#JSON_and_YAML

It may not be relevant in your use-case, but I thought it worth a mention.

Tim.