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On Thursday 03 February 2011 12:59:25 Chris Babcock wrote:
 
> YAML is a superset of JSON. ;)
> 
> Lua has safe quoting built in (See PIL 12.1.) so there's no security
> advantage to using YAML over raw Lua for data. The advantage of using
> YAML, JSON, XML or some other non-executable serialization format
> would be portability. 

Aren't YAML and JSON more readable than Lua code? If so, that's very important 
if the user needs to edit a config file or native format.

SteveT

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