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A comment on S-expressions.

Re:S-expressions by chimeracoder on Monday February 04, 2013 @12:18PM (#5165432)
> Side note: Wouldn't it be awesome if composer supported composer.sexpr files natively, so that we would no longer have to write JSON? No, not really.

Why the quick dismissal? I find s-expressions much easier to work with than JSON.

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Re:S-expressions by igorw2 on Monday February 04, 2013 @01:22PM (#5165938)
Let me clarify the reason for this.

Many people asked for yaml support in composer, and it was shot down. Here's why: Once you start supporting many formats you lose interoperability, as any tooling now needs to support all formats. That is the main reason why composer will not support sexpr.

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