[Catalyst] YAML vs. *

[Adam Jacob]

On Jun 9, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Matt S Trout wrote:

> I love YAML as a serialisation format for data transfer, but so far  
> as stuff
> like config files that are designed for human write / machine read, I
> personally think it sucks. Massively.

Yep.

> Config::General -
>
> <View TT>
>    INCLUDE_PATH __path_to('root')__
> </View>

Config::General rocks.  It handles things like includes, heredoc  
statements, and variable interpolation.

> JSON -
>
> {
>    'View::TT': {
>      INCLUDE_PATH: "__path_to('root')__"
>    }
> }

JSON is just a subset of YAML, so blah.

Adam