Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

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On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 09:27:03 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>> That's justified, because SDL fails to not surprise. Curly 
>> brace
>> syntaxes are not line-delimited not requires backslash line 
>> continuations.
>
> Like JavaScript for example?

You mean its feature where it can work without semicolons? Yeah, 
that's a silly feature, but it's not forced on everyone. I have 
never hit it in my code.

> The reason to search for an additional format is to make it 
> more convenient and readable for human interaction. XML 
> wouldn't structurally a bad choice, but is awful because of 
> it's syntactical overhead.

Aren't people more concerned with writing XML rather than 
reading? Syntax makes for easier reading and tedious writing.
And overhead is not really big:
"menu": { "id": "file", "value": "File" }
<menu id="file" value="File"/>
It's even shorter!