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Re: YAML Ain't Markup Language

• To: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Subject: Re: YAML Ain't Markup Language
• From: Mitch Amiano <mamiano@n...>
• Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 21:01:48 -0400
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The COBOL rule I dealt with were simple. Stay in the columns. Code outside the columns and it either won't compile or it will change the meaning of a data definition. Perhaps it was more of a mainframe editing rule, and as I've avoided COBOL for so long perhaps it is no longer the case. 

I am still uncomfortable using position for structure, and having read the yaml.org spec indentation rules, they seem neither simple nor flexible. Perhaps others find them so; or within the self-imposed goals the rules are quite effective. I'm willing to be corrected by time and experience. (Of which you correctly infer I have little in the area of YAML.)

Regards,

- Mitch

Paul Prescod wrote:

> Mitch Amiano wrote:
> 
>> ...
>>
>> First, I've never liked working with COBOL's fixed positioning, and 
>> YAML smacks too much of it.
> 
> 
> YAML's indentation rules are about as unlike COBOL's as is possible. You 
> shouldn't smack it until you try it.
> 
>  Paul Prescod
> 
> 
> 

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  • Re: YAML Ain't Markup Language
    • From: Mitch Amiano <mamiano@n...>
  • Re: YAML Ain't Markup Language
    • From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>

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