Re: YAML

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).
>>     
>
> 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 was in fact prepared to commit this patch, despite some significant 
misgivings about its wisdom, mainly because it does have such a low 
impact. But then other people raised objections. I'm not sure how strong 
those objections are, though.

I must say that while the YAML output might look a bit nicer than the 
JSON output, the difference strikes me as mostly marginal. But I guess 
it's like beauty and obscenity, something in the eye of the beholder. De 
gustibus non est disputandum.

cheers

andrew