A valid use case for flow style

Maybe I shouldn’t use strictyaml for linear algebra heavy stuff.

matrix: [
  [ 2., 5., 1.],
  [ 3., 2., 3.],
  [ 4., 1., 2.],
  ]
matrix_strict:
  -
    - 2.
    - 5.
    - 1.
  -
    - 3.
    - 2.
    - 3.
  -
    - 4.
    - 1.
    - 2.

[leni536]

Flow version: 65 characters long, string version: 34 characters long.

Two can play at that game.

matrix:
- [2, 5, 1]
- [3, 2, 3]
- [4, 1, 2]

It’s only 44 characters, 10 characters longer, Those 10 characters add enough semantics that all yaml parsers can parse these into native data structures without a specialized parser. And I think it is fairly easy to parse for humans too.

I don’t have any more arguments, I think we can agree to disagree.

[crdoconnor]

I can make it do something like this, which is terser than both, if you like:

matrix: |
  2 5 1
  3 2 3
  4 1 2

Python::

load(matrix_yaml, Map({"matrix": Matrix(Int(), 3, 3)}) == {"matrix": [[2, 5, 1], [3, 2, 3], [4, 1, 2]]}

How does that sound?