Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub

Re:Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub by encryptluks2 on Friday August 20, 2021 @10:32PM (#28253594)

> It's both hard for human to format correctly, and for library creator to make a compliant parser.

It is actually very easy to format correctly, unless you don't understand the format. While it may challenging to make a compliant parser, many exists for multiple languages.

JSON isn't a viable replacement.. TOML doesn't support root level lists and has its own set of challenges and is a lot more ugly and difficult to understand for complex nested structures.

If you want to kill YAML then replace it with HCL.

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Re:Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub by XorNot on Friday August 20, 2021 @11:23PM (#28253880)

TOML is atrocious. In trying to look ini-like its table and nested structures become completely inscrutable.

I only ever deal with it by writing what I need in YAML and running a converter.

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Re:Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub by encryptluks2 on Friday August 20, 2021 @11:56PM (#28254040)

Agreed. I think HCL would make a nice replacement though.

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Re:Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub by koolba on Friday August 20, 2021 @10:42PM (#28253648)

What’s HCL?

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Re:Enhanced Support for Citations on GitHub by CobsterLock on Friday August 20, 2021 @10:49PM (#28253679)

It seems to be a HashiCorp Configuration Language, HashiCorp being the creators/sponsors of terraform (I don't know much about terraform or hashicorp)

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