Before we implement SDL package format for DUB

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/26/2014 4:53 AM, eles wrote:
> On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 07:12:40 UTC, ponce wrote:
>> - SDL is _whitespace sensitive_
>
> I don't like this.
>

That's somewhat misleading.

More accurately, SDL is newline-delimited (with backslash line 
continuation). That's pretty darn simple and has an age-old history. 
It's not like we're talking weird Python/JavaScript rules or anything here.

The only thing that does trip people up is that the existence of { and } 
in the syntax makes people think "C-family and therefore freeform". And 
then it isn't, so that makes them angry. "Yeeargh! Hulk Not Want!" 
Well...or something vaguely sorta kinda like that ;)


>> - JSON has no comments, also trailing commas are disallowed
>
> To me, these are not very bad limitations. Yes, I would like comments,
> but I could leave without, especially if fields have meaningful names.
>

Personally, I find those, along with the syntax noise, to be the three 
core pillars of JSON pain.


>> - XML is XML. I find it actually OK.
>
> I would support this. Yes, is verbose, we know that. But is a very solid
> foundation.
>

XML is the spawn of satan. And not the cool "rock n roll", "heavy metal" 
kind of satan, or the bumbling lovable DBZ "Mr. 'Hercule' Satan" either, 
but the "hey, let's write a commercial webserver in shell scripts" kind 
of raw pulsating evil.