Has anyone used Perl's data notation as a web-consumable data format?

Yes, it does have a lot of overlap with JSON. It looks a bit like JSON, too. The bare keywords and the => are just syntactic sugar, but in some cases the data looks cleaner than JSON, doesn't it? And it can (potentially) have referenced data shared between two structures -- perhaps not critically important for the web, but potentially useful. Right?

An app I had written could dump its output to XML, JSON, YAML, or Perl's data notation... it's not difficult to write an emitter for it. And I know the ecological niche is small, and JSON pretty much has it sewn up. I'm just asking for the sake of asking. In other words, don't bite my head off.

In reply to Perl data notation by rje

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