I'm not going to criticize personal usage but for the point of accuracy the indention sensitive syntax of YAML is entirely optional. Like I said, it's a superse

I'm not going to criticize personal usage but for the point of accuracy the indention sensitive syntax of YAML is entirely optional. Like I said, it's a superset of JSON, which means the following is valid YMAL: { key1: value1, key2: [ value2a, value2b, value2c ] } Granted that's still got a few additional control characters (comma and colon) but personally I think that aids readability because it wouldn't be clear to my what the intent of the parameters were in your example if you hadn't named them "key" and "value". But as I said, I'm not going to criticize personal usage.