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Re:Hjson, the Human JSON by zyxley on Thursday April 14, 2016 @12:38PM (#11498178)
Strings without quotes leads to all kinds of trouble in YAML. You end up just quoting everything anyway the first time you need to use "false" or "[some words here]" as a string.
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Re:Hjson, the Human JSON by crdoconnor on Thursday April 14, 2016 @06:04PM (#11500697)
This ought be fixed by making YAML explicitly rather than implicitly typed.

E.g.

   x: yes

   >>> str(yaml['x'])
   yes

   >>> bool(yaml['x'])
   True
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