[Haskell-cafe] A new yaml module

[Chris Wong]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Joachim Breitner
<mail at joachim-breitner.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Montag, den 03.02.2014, 10:23 -0500 schrieb Brandon Allbery:
>> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
>> wrote:
>>         * There are problems with roundtripping, since YAML allows for
>>         ambiguity about the data type of values[2]. For example, in
>>         the yaml snippet `foo: 1234`, is 1234 intended to be numeric
>>         or a string? Either is valid.
>>
>>
>>
>> YAML is a pretty accurate representation of Perl values, so this is
>> inevitable. I'm left wondering if YAML is even appropriate for
>> Haskell....
>
> I’m left wondering if “is ... even appropriate for Haskell” is even
> appropriate. If the task to be solved is „Generate data in this
> particular format“, and picking the format is not part of the task, then
> we still want the language of our choice to be appropriate, don’t we?
>
> YAML may be an inappropriate choice of serialisation format if we are
> free to chose and there is only Haskell code involved.

AFAIK, Yesod uses YAML mainly for configuration files. For that use
case, I've found configurator[1] much easier to use.

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/configurator

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> Joachim
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