On Wed, 22 May 2002, Edward Avis wrote: > >And as long as no one intends that module authors actually _write_ it > >(by text editor) then I think it's just fine. > > By that argument what is wrong with Storable? It's not human _readable_. > I guess that's a good reason. OTOH, requiring a fairly common module > like XML::Parser is less bad than requiring some exotic module like the > YAML stuff. Except that XML::Parser requires a C library. Of course there's always the pure perl XML parser Matt Sergeant wrote. Anyway, I think it's mostly moot. YAML is darn easy to use: print Store ($data_struct); my $data = Load($text); and that, along with human-readability and minimal requirements probably makes it a done deal. -dave /*================== www.urth.org we await the New Sun ==================*/Thread Previous | Thread Next