always convert to the shortest map<> variant

[mr-c]

Would you accept a PR to add this?

[ghost]

Oddly, I was thinking about this too. As always, PRs most welcome, but I had a thought. I personally prefer this, as you know, because the map form avoids duplicate ids by accident and is more compact.

However, I wonder if the user is trying to maintain a certain sorted order of, say steps, by writing them out as a list.

My inclination is to say, please go ahead @mr-c and let's do this, and only if people complain should we change the policy.

[mr-c]

Ordered maps are easy with ruamel.yaml 😁👍

[ghost]

The current default behavior of cwl-format is to order such dicts alphabetically. Should this be changed then to not reorder?