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Re:What Is Wrong with TOML? by marcosdumay on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @01:19PM (#37499129)
I don't have any problem with complex "symbol vs literal" resolving in configuration languages. Unless your syntax is very weird, it should be very hard to confuse those.

That said, YAML's syntax is very weird. YAML just sucks. And any such implementation must necessarily be unityped (up to the point where the data is coerced into the configuration structure at your program) and completely preserve the original data.

TOML could be extended to support it. I don't think it's "tasteful", but I see no practical problems with it.

Re:What Is Wrong with TOML? by masklinn on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @01:45PM (#37499415)
> TOML could be extended to support it.

Seems doubtful as that's specifically something TOML was created not to support. If you want unityped ini files you can define that dialect of ini files.