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Not enough! (Score:1)

by srezic (8057)

I am still not satisfied. For me the namespace was never a problem, as it reminded me of another markup language with a tiny counterpart, namely SVG and SVG-Tiny. And as "-" is not a valid character for a module name I found it quite natually that it is replaced by "::".
What bothers me more is that I don't know what is YAML::Tiny supposed to parse. It is not yet specified. I think there should be a written spec first.
And then further problems: the META.yml specification clearly says that META.yml should
- Re:Not enough! (Score:1)
  
  by Aristotle (5147) <pagaltzis@gmx.de> on 2008.01.10 10:44 (#60125) Homepage Journal
  
  Writing a spec for the format supported by YAML::Tiny seems like a sound idea, actually. Restricting META.yml to that subset of YAML, once written, sounds like a better choice to me than putting libsyck in the core. Dual-life modules are “interesting” enough without throwing XS into the mix.
  
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