Unotal  compared to YAML ™

List Notation

Here is a YAML ™ dictionary.

YAML ™

minutes spent: 

 - 1.02

 - 1.34

 - 0.7

 - 0.89

 - 0.94

Such a list can be expressed in Unotal  as follows. The name "minutes spent" needs to be written in brackets, because it contains a blank character.

Unotal  example 

[minutes spent]=
< 1.02
  1.34
  0.7
  0.89
  0.94 >

In YAML ™, a reader not well educated in the language might mistake the positive numbers for negative numbers, because they are preceded by a minus sign. This phenomenon does not appear in Unotal.

When the YAML ™ dictionary is to be written in a single line, a different  notation needs to be used. Instead of preceding the entries with a minus sign, they now need to be separated by a comma.

YAML ™, 1

minutes spent: [1.02, 1.34, 0.7, 0.89, 0.94]

In Unotal, the same  notation as for the multi line list can still be used: As before, the values are separated by white space.

Unotal   example, 1

[minutes spent]=< 1.02 1.34 0.7 0.89 0.94 >

In Unotal, formatting is free, so new lines can be started everywhere, where a white space is admissible.

Unotal  example, 2

[minutes spent]=
< 1.02 1.34 0.7 
  0.89 0.94 >