Re: [Yaml-core] Canonical YAML?

[Sean O'D. <se...@ce...>]

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I've been following several of the discussions regarding extending basic YA=
ML=20
to handle native type conversions, namespaces and other various issues, and=
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would like to just sort of throw some advice out there.

The number one reason I started using YAML over XML was, aside from the=20
serialization aspect was its ease-of-use.  It was easy to learn and it's ve=
ry=20
easy to generate and edit YAML.  That it's also perfectly formatted for=20
parsing is genious.

Whatever it takes to solve the pending issues, keep in mind the simple user=
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above all else.  Don't make it hard to learn, hard to implement and don't=20
take away from its human-readability.  Of all the problems you folks have t=
o=20
solve in further refining YAML, I think keeping it easy to learn, implement=
,=20
read and hand-generate/edit is of the utmost importance.  I feel that if YA=
ML=20
loses those features, there's very little reason to use it over XML.

Thanks for hearing me out on this,

	Sean O'Dell
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