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YAML (Score:1)
Please make sure to specify that the diagnostics have to conform to the YAML Tiny [cpan.org] subset of YAML.
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Why? Do recall that this is also be allowed for other languages with different data structures with different serialization requirements.
Re:YAML (Score:1)
Precisely. YAML is not suitable for high-fidelity serialisation. You really want eg. Data::Dump::Streamer if your data structures are tricky.
However, writing a YAML parser is a much bigger job than writing a TAP parser. Parsing YAML Tiny is on par with parsing TAP, and the dialect is perfectly sufficient for modest serialisation needs.
So demanding a full YAML parser to parse TAP won’t provide substantial benefit but may hamper adoption of TAP.
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