tests/example.toml does not parse

[cies]

The spec says:

# DO NOT DO THIS EITHER

[a]
b = 1

[a.b]
c = 2

Yet example.toml contains:

[servers]

  # You can indent as you please. Tabs or spaces. TOML don't care.
  [servers.alpha]

My parser currently rejects example.toml as valid TOML.

Is that correct?

Or is indentation important after all?

[dhardy]

The example it says do not do is because it defines b under [a] and it defines [a.b]. Presumably some people might want to map both to a.b or something after parsing.

The second example has no such conflicts, so it is valid (not invalid).

I don't think it was the original intention that indentation matters, and it makes no sense to me that it should.

[BurntSushi]

@dhardy is right. Indentation is not significant.