[fpc-pascal] YAML support

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Wimpie Nortje wrote:

> 
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>       JSON is not related to YAML at all except in that it is a simple data format.
> 
> That's true, but from the yaml v1.2 spec:
> "YAML can therefore be viewed as a natural superset of JSON, offering improved human readability and a more complete information model. This is also the case in
> practice; every JSON file is also a valid YAML file."

That's marketing speak. I find YAML totally unreadable :-)

The advantage of JSON is that a webbrowser parses it natively, and therefor is very fast. 
This is clearly not the case for YAML.

>       And as far as I can see from the specs, YAML also does not offer a direct way
>       to capture binary data.
> 
> That is also true. I got the impression from wikipedia that YAML has a direct way to capture the binary data. From the specs I see that YAML uses base64 coding for
> binary data, which was what I hoped to prevent because it causes a lot of computation overhead.

Since they are text formats, this is simply impossible, I fear :(

Michael.