> You're making the format more verbose and error-prone (someone might easily forget to match a paren), without imposting any additional structure over what is already implied by line breaks.
Ultimately, structured data (which is pretty much all data) should be edited with structure editors. Good text formats make it easy to write such structure editors.
It's already error-prone (as anyone who's ever incorrectly edited /etc/passwd knows).
Ultimately, structured data (which is pretty much all data) should be edited with structure editors. Good text formats make it easy to write such structure editors.