Re: Better block literals

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:15 AM, <7845330-4/[email protected]> wrote:

> Ingy you're wrong and avoided answering my question.
>

Honestly, 7845330, I've been trying to be helpful, but I'm not sure what you
are trying to accomplish.

You started the thread by saying: "The block literal string scalar needs
what every other data format has - a length header." Obviously, XML and JSON
have no length header facility.

To be fair, you did not answer my questions:

* Why must you avoid indentation?
* Which, specifically, data formats are you referring to?



> * XML and JSON both have terminators - XML closing tags, JSON closing
> braces.  YAML has indentation.


I was referring to line-count or byte-count which is what you were talking
about in the prior 2 paragraphs.


> * A human editing a critical part of any YAML file can make it invalid;
> same with any other format.


I meant that something like byte count is inherently fragile and non obvious
for human editing,


> * YAML isn't the only anything; I've seen dozens of hand-crafted,
> in-house formats like it.


>
> Please just answer the question:  With existing YAML, is it viable to
> use two YAML documents inside the file, to avoid block literal
> indentation?


> If it's hard to believe such needs exist, suffice to say that I have
> them.  "It's a big world out there."  The answer is a straight yes/no.
>

The word "viable" is subjective, and subjective questions are usually not a
straight yes/no.

However, since the second of your two example YAML documents is invalid,
I'll risk the straight answer:

No.

The explanation is that even a top level literal block requires indentation.

-Ingy


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