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[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Time to read this if you haven't already

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 day ago

The json spec is not versioned. There were two changes to it in 2005 (the removal of comments

See, this is why we can't have nice things.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Iceland mentioned 🇮🇸

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

As if I didn't hate the format enough before

[–] onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Almost all of those issues are solved by explicitly quoting your strings, the author even acknowledges that. Yeah it's annoying that yaml lets you do otherwise, but the title is a bit dramatic.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago

Coming from powershell scripting, every string is put in quotes and to be printed strings with variables are put in $($var) (e.g. Write-Host "Example-Issue: $($IssueVariable)")
Saves me the trouble of hoping that $($IssueVariable) isnt interpreted as a string by PowerShell.