Re: [Yaml-core] Next draft

[Steve H. <sh...@ha...>]

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From: Brian Ingerson <in...@tt...>
> If you think about it, the use cases for this scenario are exceedingly small.
> It makes us look silly when we have to explain magical optimizations for
> things people will almost never use.
>
> Let's keep it simple up front. The reduction to 3 forms was good. Let's see
> what the public wants/needs.
>

I agree with this general point.  I think keeping things simple will help on all
fronts:

1) Less legacy to support as public feedback comes in.
2) Get parsers/dumpers for other languages done more quickly.
3) Easier to explain YAML to new users.

I think it's also time to subset YAML a bit:

YAML-I-compliant:
    - supports most basic output of hashes, arrays, and scalars
    - supports only simplest leaf forms

YAML-II compliant:
    - supports comments
    - supports inlines
    - supports aliases
    - supports more leaf forms

I think if we keep YAML-I really, really simple, then we can get cross-language
interoperability really soon.