RE: [Yaml-core] alternative notation

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

Brian Ingerson [mailto:in...@tt...]  wrote:
> With the new proposal to "be explicit about implicits", we 
> can easily be more liberal about what requires quotes. For 
> instance we could allow strings to begin wih ($.,<-+~\/). 
> Basically anything that is not ambiguous with markup and that 
> we don't want to reserve.

Good point. We can also do that in my proposal - consider it adopted :-)

> YAML strives to be as nice as possible to humans while being 
> as useful as possible in many computing domains. It's a tall 
> order to fill, but I think it's happening. At least in an 80/20 sense.

It would be nicer to both machines and people doing it the optional type way
rather than the explicit implicits way.

Have fun,

	Oren Ben-Kiki