Toml: Why `=` instead of `:`?

[chillum]

Compare following structures:

a: b

{"a": "b"}

a = "b"

It's clear that TOML is using = for compatibility with INI format, but : seems more standard nowdays and is arguably more readable and easier to write.

Maybe TOML should switch to colon syntax before 1.0? Or this is really a taste issue and it should be closed?

[chillum]

Consider these examples. Isn't the colon more elegant?

web   = "https://ya.ru"
name  = "Yandex"
match = "Найти" # Regexp to match in response.
tries = 3       # Optional attempts number.

{
  "web"   : "https://ya.ru",
  "name"  : "Yandex",
  "match" : "Найти",
  "tries" : 3
}

[chillum]

It TOML switched to colons, it could look like this:

web   : "https://ya.ru"
name  : "Yandex"
match : "Найти" # Regexp to match in response.
tries : 3       # Optional attempts number.

[BurntSushi]

We're not switching.

[Alhadis]