Re: [Yaml-core] line length limit?

[Clark C. E. <cc...@cl...>]

I like the limit of 1024 on simple keys (due to look-ahead concerns).
However, I often use a 'simplified' single-line YAML that uses all
double-quoted strings and in-line forms of mappings and sequences. It's
not easy to read, but it is a cake walk to parse.

Cheers!

Clark

On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 07:49:18PM +0300, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote:
| On Saturday 26 June 2004 18:58, Jason Diamond wrote:
| > Should there be a line length limit in order to ease the processing of
| > YAML files in typically buffer-challenged environments like C?
| >
| > I would suggest a nice round number like 1024 characters which is so
| > large that humans will never hit it but still allowing for some wiggle
| > room for applications that automatically generate YAML.
| 
| There's a 1024 characters limit for simple keys, to prevent unbound lookahead 
| in parsers. We _could_ replace this by having a 1024 characters line length 
| limit, I suppose, though that is a much more pervasive restriction.
| 
| > This wouldn't be unheard of: RFC 2822, section 2.1.1 restricts line
| > lengths in email messages::
| >
| >     There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
| >     characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
| >     998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
| >     the CRLF.
| 
| Hmmm. I don't have a strong opinion about this either way - Clark, Brian, what 
| do you think?
| 
| > By the way, how's the new draft coming along?
| 
| Slowly ;-)
| 
| Have fun,
| 
| 	Oren Ben-Kiki
| 
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