[Catalyst] JSON instead of YAML?

[Andrew Libby]

Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote:

>On 2006-01-25 10:13:20 -0500, Andrew Libby wrote:
>  
>
>>One thing that drives me crazy about YAML is my desire to have
>>variable references within my config file.  I my short reading up on
>>YAML, it didn't seem to support that.
>>    
>>
>
>[10:38:00 dwc at fortuna ~]$ cat refs.yml
>ref: &r
>  key1: value1
>  key2: value2
>deref: *r
>[10:38:14 dwc at fortuna ~]$ perl -MData::Dumper -MYAML -e 'print Dumper YAML::LoadFile("refs.yml");'
>$VAR1 = {
>          'ref' => {
>                     'key2' => 'value2',
>                     'key1' => 'value1'
>                   },
>          'deref' => $VAR1->{'ref'}
>        };
>
>IIRC, YAML calls them anchors and aliases.
>
>You might also find the YAML cookbook helpful:
>
>http://yaml4r.sourceforge.net/cookbook/
>
>  
>
Thanks Daniel. Clearly I didn't do enough research. This helps
considerably. I'll read up on anchors and aliases.

Andy

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