Re: Reg: PyYAML grammar

Steve Schafer <steve-bHQK/pGi2DVWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.yaml.general
Organization Fenestra Technologies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:45:54 -0700, you wrote:

>    x0506123456789AB                        (total length 8 bytes)

This is precisely the kind of thing that YAML was designed to eliminate!
Look at the top-priority goal of the YAML standard: "YAML is easily
readable by humans." Readability trumps _everything_.

Bits are cheap. Unless you have a truly compelling reason to worry about
the size of your data (e.g., you're working with an embedded CPU that
has only a few kB of RAM), forget about this kind of compression. It
will only come back to bite you in the butt later.

And if you really do have a reason to worry about the size of your data,
you probably shouldn't be using YAML.

-Steve Schafer

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