Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> writes: > One of my complaints. If you had read the document you would have > seen others. I actually have several complaints about YAML, but I > tried to write a cogent summary.
Yaml sucks, but seems to have gotten some traction regardless. Therefore the Python principle of "there should be one and only one obvious way to do it" says: don't try to replace the existing thing if your new thing is only slightly better. Just deal with the existing thing's imperfections or make improvements to it. If you can make a really powerful case that your new thing is 1000x better than the old thing, that's different, but I don't think we're seeing that here. Also, XML is used for pretty much everything in the Java world. It sucks too, but it is highly standardized, it observably gets the job done, there are tons of structure editors for it, etc. Frankly I'd rather have stayed with it than deal with Yaml. There are too many of these damn formats. We should ban all but one of them (I don't much care which one). And making even more of them is not the answer. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
