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Maybe I'm punching in the screw with only my hammer here, but what's wrong with combining block- and flow style in YAML?

  ---
  columns: [id, name, age]
  data:
    - [1, "Alice", 27]
    - [2, "Bob", 26]
    - [3, "Carol", 45]

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This would certainly work as a storage format, but would require custom parsing. It would be nice to have a format that automatically expanded that into a sequence of maps.

And of course you can do that same format with JSON output - have a columns array and a data array.

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