[I’ll leave this up, but after some thinking I realized I could just -very rapidly- write an alternative parser for s-expressions (that supported raw-strings) and solve my problem. It worked, and I’m moving along with writing test-cases (which was the original problem).] Does anybody know of a fi…

I haven’t had my first coffee of the day yet, but I can’t see why YAML can’t handle the attributes. A list of dicts of dicts isn’t anything unusual. Of course the indentation can get quite deep with a complex enough structure, but any human-readable format struggles in some way as you get more compl…

These are good questions. (1) “do you need recursive data-structures”? I think I do, and don’t want to limit myself there. (2) “YAML is ugly, but really, anything would be” I’ve started down the road with JSON, and oof, it’s ugly to encode constructor data-types in it. Ugggggly. So now I’m upg…

[image] R_Huxton: can’t see why YAML can’t handle the attributes. I thought I should add that I’m not a big fan of YAML, and that’s also what drives me away from it. Specifically, I found (past tense) YAML’s equivalent of ‘raw strings’ to be … unpleasant. So much so that I designed a modifi…

Have you considered KDL ? There are OCaml binding for it - ocaml-kdl . While I’ve used them only once, I was quite happy with the experience.

I’d bite the bullet and use lua bindings. Lua is half config half programming language already, it’s popular, it has good dictionary and raw string support, and it’ll give you sharing and recursion in a robust way.

grin too late, SEXP+raw-strings FTW! Also though, in addition to a config-file format, I’d need the type-deriver for de/serialization. Since I already had it for sexp, I could just add the raw-strings (a few minutes’ coding) and boom, all done, back to writing tests. ("TestCoreBasics-testMap" …

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