Dale Henrichs wrote
If you guys are all fired up to write parsers:) writing a YAML parser for Smalltalk would be very cool. There are yaml parsers for a bunch of languages, but a Smalltalk parser is conspicuously absent ...
YAML is very readable (all the extraneous gibberish has been removed from the syntax)... YAML appears to be the format of choice when humans and computers need to share the data file and would be not only work across dialects...
Dale
Oh yes, YAML parser/writer is dearly really missing. Text format should be readable, if not, give me serialized byte stream please. And by readable, I think readable by any user of software written in Smalltalk, not the Smalltalk programmer himself. As for executing file format without parsing it and interpreting it - funny how this bad idea finds its way to reappear so many times in spite of how many people got burned with it. ----- http://www.cloud208.com/ -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Yet-another-Notation-format-Object-literals-tp4651943p... Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.