Non-json surface syntax about dclib

[ijdickinson]

A common pattern in Ruby is to use ERB as a pre-processor for any file type, not just HTML. So foo.html.erb produces foo.html, while bar.json.erb produces bar.json etc. The advantage is that you get all of Ruby to help define and control the template. The downside is that you need a Ruby interpreter and then to load the ERB gem. Not strong advocacy, just a passing thought.

[der]

Thanks Ian worth considering but my initial reaction is the ERB would be step backward in legibility :)

Seems more relevant if there was any conditional generation involved but not necessarily a good match for getting a more readable surface syntax.

[der]

Added YAML support, handles all current JSON (small glitch over tags) but allows comments and multi-line strings. Using YAML style (rather than the JSON "flow" style) is arguably more readable too.