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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by ris on Sunday April 22, 2018 @04:14PM (#16898317)
> the whitespace issues of YAML

It's not just whitespace issues yaml has - try storing ISO two letter country codes as values and as soon as you get to norway, you've got a boolean.

There are many things which are deceptively "simple" where that actually means "I haven't thought about this very much".

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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by orf on Sunday April 22, 2018 @04:39PM (#16898462)
Could you not just use 'no'?
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Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield by ris on Sunday April 22, 2018 @06:04PM (#16898876)
Absolutely, but only once you've tracked down the unexpected bug.
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