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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 Alias (5735) on 2008.01.11 3:43 (#60151) Homepage Journal
  
  There is a LOT more resistance to having significant third-party C libraries in the core, compared to what I've done.
  
  As for a YAML-Tiny spec, I'll try to knock something up.
  
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