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Re: [Json] Human JSON (Hjson)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Fri, 27 May 2016 10:32 UTC

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>> I don't like quoteless strings with spaces. I think they are going to
>> cause serious problems.
> 
> Please explain.

They sure work very well in YAML.
But the rules for what you can and cannot do there are sometimes
perceived as complicated (why do you need quotes here? Oh, the colon.):

    title: "6LoWPAN: the Wireless Embedded Internet"

But then YAML has additional, more powerful quoting mechanisms, such as:

    title: >-
      Information Technology -- ASN.1 encoding rules:
      Specification of Basic Encoding Rules (BER), Canonical Encoding
      Rules (CER) and Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER)

Grüße, Carsten

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