# Dent > Duckonaut's Extensible Notation for Things. ## About Dent is an extensible format for storing slightly-advanced data. It's basic notation is simplistic to be human friendly, but allows for some basic operations at file parse time, such as: - importing other `.dent` files as parts of your file, - merging split-up dictionaries or lists. Many other operations you may need can be added with closures passed to the `Dent` struct. ## Features - Simple syntax - Integers, floats, bools, strings - Dictionaries - Lists - Comments - Extensible functions ## Examples ``` # file: examples/dent/dict.dent # Mario { name: Mario skills: [ jumps grows ] age: 35 alive: true } # ... # another file: # Define a list of characters [ @import "examples/dent/dict.dent" { name: Link skills: [ swordfighting reincarnation ] age: 23 alive: true } ] ```