Re: YAML for logs?

My first thought (and keep in mind I'm a YAML-for-everything kind of guy) is . . . eewwww. I might see maybe having a field that's Base64 encoded YAML for some structured data about the event, but for pure logging I can't think that YAML would be an ideal, let alone good, solution. Then again I may just be so used to the *NIX-y line-at-a-time log file style I'm missing something.

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Re^2: YAML for logs? by blazar (Canon) on Nov 25, 2006 at 16:18 UTC
Good points. And I'm not really sure if I'm gonna need it. Or even want it. But then I can imagine situations, call them corner cases, in which that would be desirable. As always, desirability is in the eye of the beholder, but the situations I'm referring to are those in which on line-at-a-time could become clumsy if you want to take into account human readability. Whatever, I'd still be interested in the feasability of the thing, and about how one would go to accomplish it.	[reply]

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Re^2: YAML for logs?
by blazar (Canon) on Nov 25, 2006 at 16:18 UTC

Good points. And I'm not really sure if I'm gonna need it. Or even want it. But then I can imagine situations, call them corner cases, in which that would be desirable. As always, desirability is in the eye of the beholder, but the situations I'm referring to are those in which on line-at-a-time could become clumsy if you want to take into account human readability. Whatever, I'd still be interested in the feasability of the thing, and about how one would go to accomplish it.

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