Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

[Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 27 August 2014 at 13:32:56 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> 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!

Yes writing it is what I'm concerned about.  If you like XML 
though, you're gonna love SDL:)

menu id="file" value="File"

It's even shorter again!

There's 1 to 1 mapping between SDL and XML, SDL just uses 
curly-braces and newlines instead of the <angle-brackets>.