Admittedly, the example above is quite convoluted. Most of the config files looked like this, which is almost what JSON could look like if it was based on PHP syntax instead of JavaScript:
Compared to other formats, it looks like it's missing braces at the top and bottom of the file. YAML gets around it by not requiring trailing commas and not reminding people too much of another format.
http://trac.midgard-project.org/browser/branches/ragnaroek/m...