Re: [Json] Human JSON (Hjson)

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

Peter Cordell wrote:
> For me JSON is too simple, and YAML is too complex.  I've tried to get
> into YAML a couple of times, but it seems to have multiple ways to do
> the same things, so I end up getting confused.  

I think it would be a great academic subject to study *where* people
stumble that try to pick up something like YAML.  Can you relate your
experience in some more detail (off-list if that helps)?

> It clearly fails at at
> least one level to be human friendly.  Why JSON doesn't have comments
> eludes me.  JavaScript does, so missing that bit in the subsetting was a
> big drop off IMO.

JSON was meant as an interchange format between programs, which don't
need comments to talk to each other.  (Also, if you do need to include
commentary material, you way want to process this together with the
other data, so you just add it as fields to your structure, keeping your
data model simple.)
[Just trying to relate the rationale as I have heard it expressed many
times.  Doesn't apply that much to config files, of course.]

Grüße, Carsten