JSON TAP Diagnostics?

[Ovid]

--- On Mon, 18/8/08, Dominique Quatravaux <domq at google.com> wrote:

> > YAML::Tiny seems to do everything that JSON does, so I
> must now eat crow (nom, nom, nom, gag).
> 
> Well, hope you found it tasty, but JSON is still a
> reasonable
> alternative to consider if non-Perl implementations are
> better than
> YAML's.

Oh, definitely agreed.  I cannot assert that non-Perl implementations of JSON are any better, but JSON is simple enough that I'm pretty damned sure they are.  However, YAML is so problematic that I *CAN* state that non-Perl versions are often as problematic as Perl's.

As much as I aesthetically appreciate the *appearance* of YAML, I accept David Golden's argument that the diagnostics should be more focused on machine reading than human reading.

Cheers,
Ovid
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