• Nick Sabalausky (16/16) Mar 05 2013 SDLang-D is D library to read/write SDL (Simple Declarative Language).
• Dan Olson (5/5) Mar 06 2013 Now this is very good. I so badly have wanted the simple data rep that
• Kagamin (2/11) Mar 12 2013 As I understand, SDL doesn't support allman style of curly braces?
• Nick Sabalausky (25/27) Mar 13 2013 Correct. This is because tags in SDL are newline-terminated.

Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:

SDLang-D is D library to read/write SDL (Simple Declarative Language).
SDL is a data language like JSON or XML, except it's less verbose and
type-aware. Here's an example of SDL:

    // Websites
    SDLang-D "https://github.com/Abscissa/SDLang-D"
    Original_SDL "http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Language+Guide"

Changes in this version:

- Can now output SDL. (Via 'toSDLString()' funcs.)
- Properly handle non-Unix newlines.
- Allow '\r' escape sequences.
- Make DUB package <https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/dub>
- Fixed Windows buildscript.
- Fixed build-docs script so API reference properly excludes private
  modules.
- Rename 'build-unittests' -> 'build-unittest' (for consistency with 
  'bin/sdlang-unittest').

Dan Olson <zans.is.for.cans yahoo.com> writes:

Now this is very good.  I so badly have wanted the simple data rep that
lisp has builtin and this is almost it.  XML, in my opinion, is ugly and
overly verbose.  JASON was better.  SDL looks to be just about right.
-- 
dano

"Kagamin" <spam here.lot> writes:

On Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 03:57:09 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
 SDLang-D is D library to read/write SDL (Simple Declarative 
 Language).
 SDL is a data language like JSON or XML, except it's less 
 verbose and
 type-aware. Here's an example of SDL:

     // Websites
     SDLang-D "https://github.com/Abscissa/SDLang-D"
     Original_SDL 
 "http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Language+Guide"

As I understand, SDL doesn't support allman style of curly braces?

Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:

On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:35:45 +0100
"Kagamin" <spam here.lot> wrote:
 
 As I understand, SDL doesn't support allman style of curly braces?

Correct. This is because tags in SDL are newline-terminated.

(It would be possible to allow it as a special-case, but I want to stay
compatible SDL's official spec and reference implementation, which
doesn't do that.)

You can, however, simulate it with the line-continuation operator:

mytag \
{
    subtag
    subtag
}

But unlike JavaScript (or early versions of Go, IIRC), if you
do use allman-style by mistake, you're guaranteed to get an error
instead of incorrect behavior:

mytag
{
    subtag
    subtag
}

SDLangException:
file.sdl(2:1): Error: Anonymous tags must have at least one value.

Come to think of it, I could probably customize the error message for
that particular situation to say something more appropriate like
"Opening curly braces cannot be on a separate new line".