RE: [Yaml-core] Piss and Vinegar

[Oren Ben-K. <or...@ri...>]

> | Let's not use '%' or '@' this. 
> 
> ...
> 
> | If we really have to pick another sigil, 
> | how about '`' or '^'. 
> 
> ` key
> : value
> 
> Ok.  This works for me, ^ looks too much like an 
> up arrow, and + looks too much like content.

Ugh. ` is too quotish to be a good key sign.

We have embivalent feelings about % and @. On the one hand, we'd like to
keep the Perl association with map and sequence. On the other hand we don't
want to use them as map and sequence markers. On the third hand we don't
want to use them for map and sequence *related* issues. I'm running out of
hands and of ideas on what we could concievably ever use them for. We might
as well just unreserve them :-)

Let's do a quick visual test on all possibilities:

^ \
 key
: \
 value

Obscure.

$ \
 key
: \
 value

Obscure.

? \
 key
: \
 value

Interesting...

` \
 key
: \
 value

Ugh.

: \
 key
: \
 value

Confusing.

:: \
 key
: \
 value

Cumbersome.

:- \
 key
: \
 value

Weird.

% \
 key
: \
 value

Neat.

My ranking is: I like '%' best. I'll go for '?' as second choice. '$' and
'^' I just dislike. '`' is my next-to last choice. The ':' forms are the
worst.

Have fun,

    Oren Ben-Kiki