On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Sven Verdoolaege wrote:
Not sure if this falls in the ".ini-file-like" category, but
YAML (www.yaml.org) does nesting based on indentation.
The main reason I don't like indentation is that it tends to have strange
rules for "tab". Some people (incorrectly, of course) think that tabs are
not at fixed 8-byte things, so deciding the indentation of a tab often
ends up either disallowing tabs altogether (bad) or having other strange
rules (disallowing spaces).
So I'm not religiously opposed to it, but I find it to be less than
optimal.
I'd rather have just _pure_ braces, but while that is natural to
programmers, it's not very natural to most users, I think.
Linus