Developers seem to complain about anything that takes a little bit of memory and care. To a limited extent, that's not a bad thing--our brains have limits. Howe

Developers seem to complain about anything that takes a little bit of memory and care. To a limited extent, that's not a bad thing--our brains have limits. However, when the benefits outweigh the costs, complaining about it is a bad thing. Regular expressions are a good example. Developers seem to hate them. I find them easy and intuitive, and I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed. However, I will take some care to commit some stuff to memory and make some notes. That's it. When you know what characters are magic, know what the special characters mean, they're extremely straight-forward except when they're very complex. Same thing with YAML. It's got a couple of rough edges, but the complexity carries its weight, and most of the difficulties go away if you bite the bullet and memorize it. Just commit those block chomping operators to memory, it doesn't hurt that much, then you can get on with your life and quit complaining about YAML and make it work for you.