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Re:YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) by lomnakkus on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:48PM (#17359064)
That doesn't work if you use a strict parser where superfluous fields are an error. It's quite rare, but there are good use cases for that kind of strictness.
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Re:YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) by cesarb on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @04:27PM (#17359440)
Or when no fields are superfluous. For instance, when the code iterates over all the fields and does something with each, instead of just looking for known keys.
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Re:YAML: probably not so great after all (2017) by inimino on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:12PM (#17359825)
Or when the place you need to put the comment doesn't happen to be inside an object literal.
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