CON Specification document draft

Not stable yet - work in progress

Types

The format is designed to be as simple and as easy to parse as possible, while keeping a good level of readability.

All characters are UTF-8 encoded

Delimiters

Delimiters are used in hashes to seprate keys and values, and arrays to separate elements.

At least one of this character is required. They can be chained, any combination is valid:

• \n
• \r
• \t

Key

A key is separated by its value with a delimiter

str "value"

This characters need to be escaped, in addition to delimiters:

• \b
• \f
• \
• [
• ]
• {
• }

Values

String

Strings are enclosed with two quotes

"value"

This characters need to be escaped, in addition to delimiters:

• \b
• \f
• \
• "

Integer

Integers are signed and 64-bit by default

int 1
neg -2

Float

Floats are signed and 64-bit by default

float 1.1
float -0.3

Bool

A boolean value can either take true or false

enabled true

Nil

nil represents the absence of value

key nil

Array

Arrays consists of elements separated by a delimiter, and enclosed by brackets.

Arrays of hashes don't require a delimiter.

array [
  "a"
  1
]

condensed:

array[{a "b"}{c "d"}]

Hash

Hashes consists of key/value pairs separated by a delimiter, and enclosed by curly brackets.

Curly braces aren't needed at the start/end of a document.

hash {
  key "value"
  other "val"
}

condensed:

hash{key "value" other "val"} or {hash{key "value" other "val"}}