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How is TOML not properly nestable?
by daveroberts 9y ago
How is TOML not properly nestable?
- zenlikethat 9y agoBecause in TOML you just specify additional keys after the first one, leading to redundancy and representing a structure that's actually nested as flat. In TOML you can indent but it's not required: [[fruit]] name = "apple" [[fruit.physical]] color = "red" shape = "round" In HCL it's all just one (properly nested) object and you can `fmt` it: fruit { name = "apple" physical { color = "red" shape = "round" } } It seems arbitrary but really matters once you're nesting a few levels deep, which tends to happen in anything complex such as an orchestration system.