Re: Human-readable serialization formats other than YAML?

Depending on your particular audience, JSON might be a good format. It's a very simple format, especially for programmers. I use the module JSON::DWIW to generate and parse JSON in my programs.

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Re^2: Human-readable serialization formats other than YAML? by adamk (Chaplain) on Apr 23, 2008 at 10:15 UTC
JSON uses the same subset of data structures as YAML::Tiny. If he wants a "human-readable" storage format that supports objects, JSON won't help.	[reply]
Re^2: Human-readable serialization formats other than YAML? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 23, 2008 at 03:12 UTC
So is Data::Dumper, especially for perl programmers :p	[reply]
Re^2: Human-readable serialization formats other than YAML? by atemerev (Beadle) on Apr 23, 2008 at 14:13 UTC
I like JSON myself and use it extensively for data transfer purposes (it's about as compact as plaintext serialization format could ever be), but it's not particularly human-readable, even when pretty-printed. This is especially the case with multi-line strings mentioned in this example. Still, it might be enough for debugging purposes. But so is any other text serialization format. Even (G-d forbid!) XML. With CDATA sections.	[reply]