Fwd: Is there a slim YAML?

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From: Trans <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Yaml-core] Is there a slim YAML?
To: mofo syne <[email protected]>




On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:01 PM, mofo syne <[email protected]> wrote:

> trans,
>
> http://talk.commonmark.org/t/metadata-in-documents/721/37?u=mofosyne
>
> Regarding your current EBNF for diet-yaml
>
> jgm said (in link above):
>
> >>>
>
> This would not be hard to parse, but seems to lack what I think is a
> crucial feature: the ability to specify multiline strings using |:
>
> > title: My Article
> > abstract: |
> >         This is the abstract of my
> >          article.  It can go on and on.
>
> >         It can even have two paragraphs,
> >         or a list:
>
> >          - one
> >         - two
>
>
Actually, though it hasn't been specified anywhere as of yet, it may be
that Diet YAML will always use an implied `|` for multi-line strings.

In any case, to be clear the EBNF given is not considered complete. It's
just a first stab.






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