| From: | Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: YAML |
| Date: | 2009-12-08 13:16:42 |
| Message-ID: | 20091208131642.GA49023@timac.local |
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On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 07:07:13PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> Not everything is sanely convertible into some sort of plugin. A plugin
>>> mechanism for this would be FAR more trouble that it is worth, IMNSHO.
>>>
>>> We are massively over-egging this pudding (as a culinary blogger you
>>> should appreciate this analogy).
>>>
>>
>> OK, then let's just accept it. It's small, has a maintainer, is useful
>> to some people, and doesn't create any wierd complications. I think,
>> given the knowledge that YAML is now a subdialect of JSON it could
>> potentially be made smaller, but I can't say how at the moment.
>
> Actually, it's the other way, JSON is a subset of YAML.
I've no contribution to the main topic, but I'd like to point out that
the "JSON is a subset of YAML" meme is not without controversy:
http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/JSON-XS-2.26/XS.pm#JSON_and_YAML
It may not be relevant in your use-case, but I thought it worth a mention.
Tim.
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