Nested textual format:
- Whitespace, commas
,and semi-colons;separates list nodes - Any non-whitespace sequence that don't fall in any of the following rules is a text value
- Parenthesis
(), brackets[]or braces{}delimit a child list - Starting single quotes
', double quotes"and backticks ` delimit a single text value that may contain otherwise special characters, like(),[],,,:or;. The quotation marks can be escaped by being doubled, so that the text'one ''quoted'' phrase'content becomesone 'quoted' phrase, for example. Notice that quotation marks can appear normally in the middle of text values, likef'ordouble"quotes" - A mumber sign
#starts a comment, so the rest of the line text is discarded. To use#as the first character in a text value, the text must be quoted - A colon
:just after a text value marks a key-value data binding with the just parsed text value being the key and the following node being a value. To use:in a text value, the text must be quoted. Notice that keys are always text, but values can be either text or nested lists.
It's interesting to notice that valid JSON files are also valid Nested files,
although Nested does not enforce the same semantics for non-textual values like numbers and null, nor
text escape sequences.