[dmd-beta] D 2.062 beta

Leandro Lucarella luca at llucax.com.ar
Thu Feb 14 17:47:48 PST 2013


Nick Sabalausky, el 14 de February a las 16:39 me escribiste:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:39:33 +0100
> Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 13 feb 2013, at 21:53, Nick Sabalausky <bus_dmdbeta at semitwist.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > IMO, SDL (Simple Declarative Language, not Simple DirectMedia Layer)
> > > beats the heck out of even YAML:
> > > http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Home
> > > 
> > > It's just trivially simple and obvious with no syntactic noise. I
> > > had been a proponent of YAML, but my interest in it died completely
> > > after discovering SDL. YAML has less syntactic noise than JSON, but
> > > it's kinda complicated. I had started writing a D version of SDL
> > > last year but then got distracted. Definitely want to get back to
> > > it though.
> > 
> > 
> > After a quick glance at that page it looks more complicated than
> > JSON. I would consider YAML less complicated than JSON.
> > 
> 
> It's actually very simple. Everything is a tag, which is basically of
> the form:
> 
> [namespace:]name [values] [attributes of the form name=value] [{
>     children
> }]
> 
> A basic ini-style list of names/values is just:
> 
> first "Joe"
> last "Smith"
> age 17
> addr "123 Road St."

Why wouldn't you keep using the ini format then?

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