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diff --git a/perl/perl-YAML-Tiny/README b/perl/perl-YAML-Tiny/README index 9172a89096..e157697d35 100644 --- a/perl/perl-YAML-Tiny/README +++ b/perl/perl-YAML-Tiny/README @@ -1,14 +1,20 @@ -perl-YAML-Tiny (Read/Write YAML files with a little code as possible). +perl-YAML-Tiny (read/write YAML files with a little code as possible) -The YAML specification is huge. Really, really huge. It contains all the functionality of XML, -except with flexibility and choice, which makes it easier to read, but with a formal specification that is more complex than XML. +The YAML specification is huge. Really, really huge. It contains all the +functionality of XML, except with flexibility and choice, which makes +it easier to read, but with a formal specification that is more complex +than XML. -The original pure-Perl implementation YAML costs just over 4 megabytes of memory to load. -Just like with Windows .ini files (3 meg to load) and CSS (3.5 meg to load) the situation -is just asking for a YAML::Tiny module, an incomplete but correct and usable subset of the functionality, in as little code as possible. +The original pure-Perl implementation YAML costs just over 4 megabytes +of memory to load. Just like with Windows .ini files (3 meg to load) +and CSS (3.5 meg to load) the situation is just asking for a YAML::Tiny +module, an incomplete but correct and usable subset of the functionality, +in as little code as possible. -Like the other ::Tiny modules, YAML::Tiny has no non-core dependencies, does not require a compiler to install, -is back-compatible to Perl v5.8.1, and can be inlined into other modules if needed. +Like the other ::Tiny modules, YAML::Tiny has no non-core dependencies, +does not require a compiler to install, is back-compatible to Perl v5.8.1, +and can be inlined into other modules if needed. -In exchange for this adding this extreme flexibility, it provides support for only a limited subset of YAML. -But the subset supported contains most of the features for the more common uses of YAML. +In exchange for this adding this extreme flexibility, it provides support +for only a limited subset of YAML. But the subset supported contains +most of the features for the more common uses of YAML. |